Alex Miller

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney and general editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Unravelling the change: The Tivington Nott and Watching the Climbers on the Mountain2. Multiple modernities: The Ancestor Game3. Black mirror: The Sitters4. The iron world: Conditions of Faith5. The central Queensland novels: Journey to the Stone Country6. The third hand: Prochownik’s Dream7. The central Queensland novels: Landscape of Farewell8. The economy of gift: Lovesong9. Eye of the storm: Autumn Laing10. Reading lessons: Coal CreekAfterwordWorks citedIndex

'Dixon maps the expanses of Miller’s thought – the “intellectual achievement” of the fiction – with precision and understanding ... It is heartening to read a critical work of such scope and acuity, and important for the future of Australian literature that publishers such as Sydney University Press continue to be so committed to Australian criticism.’