Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of
this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated
novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to
consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major
literary figure. The essays examine all of Harrower's published
fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication
of In Certain Circles in 2014. Together they provide an wide
ranging introduction to the extraordinary imaginative and
intellectual project of her work. They explore her engagement with
20th-century history and post-war society, with modernism and
modernity, and with the personal impacts of mass media, technology
and industry. They demonstrate her grasp of the ethical and
philosophical challenges confronting her readers and characters in
late modernity as seen from a number of distinctive vantage points,
including the harbourside mansions and commercial centres of
post-war Sydney, the suburbs of industrial Newcastle and the
bed-sitters of expatriate London in the 1960s. Together the essays
offer new insights into an Australian writer at the crossroads of
modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to read and re-engage
with Harrower's work in a new light.
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