Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone
One of the conspicuously recurrent motifs in Christina Stead's novels is the quest. The present study centres on For Love Alone, the novel in which the prominence of this motif culminates in the depiction of Teresa Hawkins' successful quest, which contains both social and spiritual elements. The novel has a discernible romance structure, and a number of heroic models, including both male and femal
