Elizabeth Harrower
Articles
- Fathers and Lovers: Three Australian Novels
Discusses three Australian novels--The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead, Time Enough Later (1945) by Kylie Tennant and The Watch Tower (1966)…
1 October 1982 - ‘The Only Russian in Sydney’: Modernism and Realism in The Watch Tower
In the post-war period, the dichotomy between Realism and Modernism seemed to summarise all the important rivalries in Australian fiction — nationalist enthusiasm and political…
1 May 1992 - Australian Short Fiction from While the Billy Boils to The Everlasting Secret Family
As every writing on or of short fiction knows, beginnings and endings are vital. The boundaries of this critical outline of twentieth-century Australian short fiction…
1 October 1981 - Sex and the City: New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century
‘Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s—what might be called the ‘long 1950s’—was…
1 October 2012 - ‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.
Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, Down in the City (1957), introduces concerns that define her oeuvre, offering a typically adroit depiction of destructive domestic relations and…
16 November 2016 - Review of Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas
Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays, edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas. Sydney University Press, 2017.
9 July 2018