num_pages: 174
description: 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.
language: English
title: Real relations: The feminist politics of form in Australian fiction
titlecomplete: Real relations: The feminist politics of form in Australian fiction (The ASAL literary series)
publisher: Halstead Press with the Association for the Study of Australian Literature