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New Readings of Elizabeth von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist consolidates the growing field of Elizabeth von Arnim studies and points to new trajectories for further research. Bringing together recognised and emerging scholarly voices and featuring previously unseen archival materials, this volume introduces key contexts for reading von Arnim's work at an important point in her re-appraisal as a writer. Its eleven chapters highlight critical debates related to modernism, feminism and the middlebrow and explore new contexts such as fashion and material culture, medical humanities, ageing studies, music and the visual arts. By focusing on neglected novels from von Arnim's oeuvre and examining better-known work from new perspectives, the volume paves the way for the next decade of von Arnim studies and beyond.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: : The Unexpected Modernist
Noreen O'Connor and Jennifer Shepherd
Part I. Returning to Elizabeth: Gender, Politics and Genre
1. Women Who Take to the Sofa: Rewriting Narratives of Marriage and Motherhood in Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife
Noreen O'Connor
2. Writing Women's 'Second Half': Discourses of Ageing in Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April, Love and Mr Skeffington
Jennifer Shepherd
3. Feminism and Conservatism in Elizabeth von Arnim's Fiction: The Edwardian Novels
Kate Macdonald
4. 'This Secret Treasure': Suppression of Female Identity in An Introduction to Sally
Charlotte Fiehn
Part II. Reimagining Elizabeth: New Critical Directions
5. 'It was the Clothes that Wore Out the Woman': Fashion, Mobility and New Constructions of Womanhood in the Work of Elizabeth von Arnim
Stacy Sivinski and Trish Bredar
6. The Business of Elizabeth
Ann Herndon Marshall
7. Kinderszenen and the Kindergarten: Elizabeth von Arnim's The April Baby's Book of Tunes
Sally Horovitz
8. 'No Eye for Nature and Frozen Seas': Baltic Landscapes and Female Self-expression in Elizabeth von Arnim's Early Works
Claire McKeown
Part III. Reading Elizabeth, Reading Others
9. 'Neither Art Itself Nor Life Itself': The New Biographies of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth von Arnim
Juliane Römhild
10. 'If She Must See, To See in Silence': Catching Up with the Victorians in The Caravaners and The Enchanted April
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
11. 'Women on the Move': Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen and the Search for Home
Nick Turner
Notes on Contributors
Index