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

'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.’

• 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

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

'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.’

• 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

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

'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.’

• 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