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'Elizabeth Harrower’s fictions are often severe and enigmatic, and, although riveting in their surface action and exquisite in their style, do not immediately disclose their meaning. Yet it could well be said that if Harrower has a subject it is gender. All her novels are about gender relations and hierarchies. Indeed, the only way to ignore this is if we persist in seeing gender as a minor and provincial sphere, not heeding to the way that, as Raewyn Connell puts it, gender institutions affect all social institutions. This is even more salient as we realise how, in Connell’s words, gender differences can appear in one sense so “stark and rigid” and in another so “fluid, complex, and uncertain”.' (Introduction)
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A Wrong Way of Being Right : The Tormented Force of the Harrower Man
Subjects:
- The Watch Tower 1966 single work novel
- The Catherine Wheel 1960 single work novel
- Down in the City 1957 single work novel
- The Long Prospect 1958 single work novel
- In Certain Circles 2014 single work novel
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