Meg Brayshaw teaches and researches Australian literature. She holds a doctorate from Western Sydney University and serves on the editorial team of Australian Literary Studies. She lives on unceded Dharawal land.

• 1. Introduction: Writing a city built on water.- 2. The origins of Australian urban modernity: Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).- 3. Science, everyday experience and modern urban women: Dymphna Cusack’s Jungfrau (1936).- 4. Ecology, urban ethics and the Harbour: Eleanor Dark’s Waterway (1938).- 5. Plans, porosity and the possibilities of urban narrative: Kylie Tennant’s Foveaux (1939).- 6. The end of the city: M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983).- 7. Conclusion: Sydney then and now.

Meg Brayshaw teaches and researches Australian literature. She holds a doctorate from Western Sydney University and serves on the editorial team of Australian Literary Studies. She lives on unceded Dharawal land.

• 1. Introduction: Writing a city built on water.- 2. The origins of Australian urban modernity: Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).- 3. Science, everyday experience and modern urban women: Dymphna Cusack’s Jungfrau (1936).- 4. Ecology, urban ethics and the Harbour: Eleanor Dark’s Waterway (1938).- 5. Plans, porosity and the possibilities of urban narrative: Kylie Tennant’s Foveaux (1939).- 6. The end of the city: M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983).- 7. Conclusion: Sydney then and now.

Meg Brayshaw teaches and researches Australian literature. She holds a doctorate from Western Sydney University and serves on the editorial team of Australian Literary Studies. She lives on unceded Dharawal land.

• 1. Introduction: Writing a city built on water.- 2. The origins of Australian urban modernity: Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).- 3. Science, everyday experience and modern urban women: Dymphna Cusack’s Jungfrau (1936).- 4. Ecology, urban ethics and the Harbour: Eleanor Dark’s Waterway (1938).- 5. Plans, porosity and the possibilities of urban narrative: Kylie Tennant’s Foveaux (1939).- 6. The end of the city: M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947; 1983).- 7. Conclusion: Sydney then and now.