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Author:   Elizabeth McMahon ,  Brigitta Olubas
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   0.255kg
ISBN:  

9781743325599

ISBN 10:   1743325592
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   28 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Rediscovering again: reading Elizabeth Harrower across time by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas 1. Harrower’s things: objects in The Watch Tower by Michelle de Kretser 2. Elizabeth Harrower in Sydney by Fiona McFarlane 3. A really long prospect: Elizabeth Harrower’s Fallen World by Ivor Indyk 4. Sydney in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower by Elizabeth Webby 5. A wrong way of being right: the tormented force of the Harrower man by Nicholas Birns 6. ‘The wind from Siberia’: metageography and ironic nationality in the novels of Elizabeth Harrower by Robert Dixon 7. Weather and temperature, the will to power and the female subject in Harrower’s fiction by Kate Livett 8. ‘White, fierce, shocked, tearless’: The Watch Tower and the electric interior by Brigid Rooney 9. Addiction, fire and the face in The Catherine Wheel by Brigitta Olubas 10. Projecting the sixties: mediation and characterology in The Catherine Wheel by Julian Murphet 11. Traversing ‘the same extreme country’ in The Watch Tower and Daniel Deronda by Megan Nash 12. Moments of being in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower by Elizabeth McMahon Contributors Index

Reviews

'Like many Australian writers, especially the women, Harrower's work has lacked sustained critical attention, and this book has an important role to play as the first collection of critical essays on her oeuvre.' -- Susan Sheridan * Australian Book Review * 'Both individually and as a collection, the chapters offer an appreciation of the historical place Harrower's work has in 'Australian literature', but they also set out to question the usefulness of such nationalist frameworks today for understanding Harrower's oeuvre. If the collection has had a hand in 'rediscovering' Harrower and her work, the result is not only the recuperation of 'lost (classic) texts', but also new assessments and intelligent interpretations of Harrower's writing.' -- Tanya Dalziell * Australian Literary Studies * 'Harrower inspires some unsurprisingly personal responses, which make up the first few essays in this collection ... As the collection continues, these refreshingly punchy accounts give way to more traditional critical essays ... Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays is a welcome attempt to compensate for a fifty-year silence, but there is much still to be said about this distinctively Australian writer.' -- Antonia Cundy * The Times Literary Supplement *

Author Information

Elizabeth McMahon is an associate professor of Australian literature at the University of New South Wales. Brigitta Olubas is an associate professor of English at the University of New South Wales.

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