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Discusses courtship, women and romance in nineteenth century Australian art and literature, particularly the works of Lawson, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin.
Discusses the motif of the wanderer or Nietzschean 'free spirit' in three of Stead's early novels where the image of the island of Cythera is invoked as the 'metaphoric goal of the quest'. Connects Stead's themes with similar preoccupations in the works of Brennan and Slessor.
