Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction : Lived Things (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction Reading Things, Senses, and Meanings Intricate Things on the Page: the Modernist Short Fiction of Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys 2. Powerful Things Ironical Spirits and Living Mannequins: Jean Rhys, Magic, and Surrealism Dolls, Boots, and Madames: Djuna Barnes Rewrites Fetishism 3. Lively Things Djuna Barnes’s Piled-up and Entangled Assemblages Katherine Mansfield Writing a Nonhuman Life 4. Touching Things Nice Things: Materiality and Positive affect in Katherine Mansfield’s and Jean Rhys’s Stories The Affective Journeys of Djuna Barnes’s and Katherine Mansfield’s Stories 5. Making Sense of Things Masses and Vividnesses: the Aesthetics and Ethics of The Left Bank At the Indifferent Bay: Nonhuman Perspectives and Meaning in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Djuna Barnes’s Detail and the Materiality of the Symbolic 6. Conclusion: Reading Affective Materiality