Naomi Mitchison : : A Writer in Time / / ed. by James Purdon.
The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison’s life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by MitchisonThe first collection of scholarly essays on Naomi Mitchison’s life and writingDeals with a broad sweep of Mitchison’s life and work, including her histori...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Naomi Mitchison’s Interwar Short Stories
- 2. ‘She had her hand on the plow’: Shame, Uncertainty and Transformation in The Corn King and the Spring Queen
- 3. Varieties of Sexual Experience: Naomi Mitchison, Mysticism and Gerald Heard
- 4. Scientific Temporalities in We Have Been Warned and ‘Beyond This Limit’
- 5. Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison and the Politics of Reproduction and Motherhood
- 6. From Argyll with Love: Naomi Mitchison and the Soviet Union
- 7. Fire or Blood? Aestheticising Resistance in Naomi Mitchison’s The Blood of the Martyrs
- 8. ‘The summoning urgent thing’: The Bull Calves and the Drive to Experiment at Mid-Century
- 9. Mitchison, Decolonisation and African Modernity
- Naomi Mitchison’s ‘Europe’
- Europe
- Bibliography
- Index