Book 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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Book 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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- Naomi MitchisonA Writer in Time, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023