Alex Miller's novels are increasingly regarded as classics of Australian literature. This collection of critical essays offers a systematic introduction to the work of one of Australia's best known authors.

Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

1 Disestablished Worlds: The Novels of Alex Miller - Robert Dixon
2 The Mask of Fiction: A Memoir - Alex Miller
3 Alex Miller and Leo Tolstoy: Australian Storytelling in a European Tradition - Brenda Walker
4 'My Memory Has a Mind of Its Own': Watching the Climbers on the Mountain and The Tivington Nott - Peter Pierce
5 Alex Miller: Migrant Writer - Ingeborg van Teeseling
6 The Presence of Absence in The Sitters- Ronald A. Sharp
7 Like/Unlike: Portraiture, Similitude and the Craft of Words in The Sitters - Brigitta Olubas
8 An Artist in the Family: Reconfigurations of Romantic Paradigms in Prochownik's Dream - Adrian Caesar
9 Representing 'the Other' in the Fiction of Alex Miller - Elizabeth Webby
10 Continental Heartlands and Alex Miller's Geosophical Imaginary - Elizabeth McMahon
11 Personal Perspectives on the Central Queensland Novels - Frank Budby, Elizabeth Hatte and Anita Heiss
12 The Frontier Wars: History and Fiction in Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell - Shirley Walker
13 Old Testament Prophets, New Testament Saviours: Reading Retribution and Forgiveness Towards Whiteness in Journey to the Stone Country - Liliana Zavaglia
14 Dougald's Goat: Alex Miller and the Species Barrier - David Brooks
15 The Ruin of Time and the Temporality of Belonging: Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell - Brigid Rooney
16 Trusting the Words: Reflections on Landscape of Farewell - Raimond Gaita
17 Autumn Laing - Geordie Williamson