{"product_id":"elizabeth-harrower-9781743325599","title":"Elizabeth Harrower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of \u003cem\u003eIn Certain Circles\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sydney University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781743325599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Elizabeth McMahon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52161335460021,"sku":"9781743325599","price":31.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_517f741d-d241-4f7f-986d-29a7dd16d0a8.jpg?v=1768317906","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elizabeth-harrower-9781743325599","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}