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'The Watch Tower (1966) is typically read as a psychological novel, an exemplary study in abuse and entrapment that returns to and intensifies the central subject of Elizabeth Harrower’s fiction. Like everyone else who reads it, I am riveted by the forensic brilliance with which Harrower details Felix Shaw’s systematic destruction of the lives of the women in his household. Yet this focus on individuals and psychology risks blinding us to other things that are going on in the novel, one of which is a preoccupation with, well, things. So I’d like to look a little closer at objects in The Watch Tower'
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Harrower's Things : Objects in The Watch Tower
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