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Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934): Eccentric Modernism and Radical Politics in an Australian Metropolis

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Matthews, S. (2020). Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934): Eccentric Modernism and Radical Politics in an Australian Metropolis. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_33-1

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