Real relations: The feminist politics of form in Australian fiction

by Susan Lever

Examines a century of realist fiction and challenges a contemporary feminist assumption that realist writers speak for patriarchal liberalism. In the work of writers such as Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and Sally Morgan, Susan Lever finds new perspectives on sex and fictional forms.

174 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Susan Lever taught literature for many years at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and she is the author and editor of several books, including The Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse and A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War.