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Elizabeth Harrower

Critical Essays
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Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first comprehensive study of the acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth Harrower. This collection features essays by celebrated novelists and noted critics, examining all her published fiction from early short stories to the posthumous release of In Certain Circles in 2014. The essays explore her engagement with 20th-century history, modernism, post-war society, and the ethical challenges of late modernity, set across diverse locations such as Sydney's harbourside mansions, Newcastle's suburbs, and 1960s London.

Together, these essays offer fresh insights into Harrower's position at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, inviting readers to rediscover her work in a new light.
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This title is ideal for readers interested in Australian literature, modernist and postmodernist studies, and literary criticism, as well as for scholars and students exploring 20th-century cultural history and women’s writing.

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Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Harrower's fiction. Featuring essays by leading researchers in Australian literature, this volume offers new insights into a writer at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, and invites readers to read Harrower's work in a new light.

In this original collection of essays, novelists and literary critics explore the work of acclaimed Australian author, Elizabeth Harrower.

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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 a 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.

Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature

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‘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

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781743325599

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 September 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Sydney University Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Brigitta Olubas
  • Edited by Elizabeth McMahon

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 176.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 144

About the Author

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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