Naomi Mitchison : : A Writer in Time /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Faragher, Megan,
Hall, Lesley A.,
Hubble, Nick,
Livingstone, Catriona,
Mellor, Leo,
Piette, Adam,
Purdon, James,
Stead, Henry,
Woodberry, Imogen,
HerausgeberIn:
Purdon, James,
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

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