New readings of Elizabeth Von Arnim : the unexpected modernist / edited by Jennifer Shepherd and Noreen O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepherd, Jennifer, editor.

O'Connor, Noreen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Von Arnim, Elizabeth, 1866-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Von Arnim, Elizabeth.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Unexpected Modernist

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

2. Writing Women’s ‘Second Half’: Discourses of Ageing in Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April, Love and Mr Skeffington

3. Feminism and Conservatism in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Fiction: The Edwardian Novels

4. ‘This Secret Treasure’: Suppression of Female Identity in An Introduction to Sally

Part IIReimagining 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

6. The Business of Elizabeth

7. Kinderszenen and the Kindergarten: Elizabeth von Arnim’s The April Baby’s Book of Tunes

8. ‘No Eye for Nature and Frozen Seas’: Baltic Landscapes and Female Self-expression in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Early Works

Part III Reading Elizabeth, Reading Others

9. ‘Neither Art Itself Nor Life Itself’: The New Biographies of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth von Arnim

10. ‘If She Must See, To See in Silence’: Catching Up with the Victorians in The Caravaners and The Enchanted April

11. ‘Women on the Move’: Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen and the Search for Home

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781399531436

1399531433

OCLC:

1514633916