Books in the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series

Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane's diverse body of work.

Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies' developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies.

ElizabethHarrower: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing onHarrower's fiction. Featuring essays by leading researchers in Australianliterature, this volume offers new insights into a writer at the crossroads ofmodernism and postmodernism, and invites readers to read Harrower's work in anew light.

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing on Flanagan's fiction. Featuring 12 essays from leading scholars, this volume offers new insights on how his native Tasmania has influenced Flanagan as a writer, and the impact that he has had on Australian and world literature.

This is the first critical study to focus on Stead's time in America and its influence on her writing.

'Fallen Among Reformers' focuses on Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League (1906-1915).

Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of the award-winning Australian author Gail Jones.

Alex Miller: the ruin of time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels.

Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard''s writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.Hazzard''s oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author''s life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard''s lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.Hazzard''s work has been duly praised and admired by many including the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as ''the greatest living writer on goodness and love''. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford observed: ''If there has to be one best writer working in English today it''s Shirley Hazzard.''

One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting.In Patrick White's Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White's eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White's complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.