Brigitta Olubas is an associate professor of English at the University of New South Wales.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionBrigitta OlubasPart 1: between short fiction and the novel1. Future anterior: The Evening of the Holiday by John Frow2. ‘This intricate lasting nature’: passage, pastoral elegy and the pedagogy of loss in The Evening of the Holiday by Fiona MorrisonPart 2: Naples and The Bay of Noon3. Another journey to Italy: The Bay of Noon by Lucy Dougan4. ‘No-one had thought of looking close to home’: reading the province in The Bay of Noon by Bridget Rooney5. ‘Naples is a leap’: time, space and consciousness in Shirley Hazzard’s Naples by Sharon OudittPart 3: The Transit of Venus6. Glasses and speculations: on Hazzard’s transits by Gail Jones7. Returning to the scene of the crime: on re-reading The Transit of Venus by Robert DixonPart 4: writing at the mid-century8. The mid-century method of The Great Fire by Claire Seiler9. Does idealism preclude heroism? Shirley Hazzard’s United Nations writings by Nicholas BirnsPart 5: biography10. The transit of Shirley Hazzard by Jan McGuinness11. Meeting Shirley Hazzard by Martin StannardIndex

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