Shirley Hazzard

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

‘a vibrant gathering of critics, discussing Hazzard’s writing with infectious engagement. This book is a great professional achievement for the publisher at a time when we need to consolidate our understanding of established writers, who risk slipping from critical view as we attend to the new.’

• 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