Henry Handel Richardson: A Life - Hardcover

Michael Ackland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521840554 ISBN 13: 9780521840552

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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This 2004 book is a complete biography of Henry Handel Richardson.

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Michael Ackland is the author of Henry Kendall: the Man and the Myths and Damaged Men: the Precarious Lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart. He was educated in Australia and Germany, where he attended secondary school and studied German literature at the University of Cologne. Currently he is Head of the English Department at Monash University.

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Henry Handel Richardson is one of Australia's major novelists, and one of the most elusive. An expatriate for most of her life, she worked hard to maintain her privacy, and to conceal her personal views behind an impartial authorial style. This study explores the well-springs of her fiction, her abiding concerns and the intellectual heritage that informs her major writing. An overview of her life is provided, and all her fiction discussed. The study focuses on her engagement with the sexual politics of the time, on inherited concerns, and on contemporary theories of gender. The influence on her fiction of writers as diverse as Hoffmann and Wedekind, Weininger, Freud and Schopenhauer, is demonstrated. Ackland locates Richardson's work within a tradition of European thought, while also showing why she is of central importance to Australian and women's studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521840554
• ISBN 13: 9780521840552
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356
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