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.

• AcknowledgementsRediscovering again: reading Elizabeth Harrower across time by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas1. Harrower’s things: objects in The Watch Tower by Michelle de Kretser2. Elizabeth Harrower in Sydney by Fiona McFarlane3. A really long prospect: Elizabeth Harrower’s Fallen World by Ivor Indyk4. Sydney in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower by Elizabeth Webby5. A wrong way of being right: the tormented force of the Harrower man by Nicholas Birns6. ‘The wind from Siberia’: metageography and ironic nationality in the novels of Elizabeth Harrower by Robert Dixon7. Weather and temperature, the will to power and the female subject in Harrower’s fiction by Kate Livett8. ‘White, fierce, shocked, tearless’: The Watch Tower and the electric interior by Brigid Rooney9. Addiction, fire and the face in The Catherine Wheel by Brigitta Olubas10. Projecting the sixties: mediation and characterology in The Catherine Wheel by Julian Murphet11. Traversing ‘the same extreme country’ in The Watch Tower and Daniel Deronda by Megan Nash12. Moments of being in the fiction of Elizabeth Harrower by Elizabeth McMahonContributorsIndex

‘Like many Australian writers, especially the women, Harrower’s work has lacked sustained critical attention, and this book has an important role to play as the first collection of critical essays on her oeuvre.’