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Eugenics & Literature
Literature & Politics
Mid-Century Literature
Naomi Mitchison
Science Fiction
Scottish Fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781474494748
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison's life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison
The first collection of scholarly essays on Naomi Mitchison's life and writing
Deals with a broad sweep of Mitchison's life and work, including her historical fiction, science fiction, travels in the USA and USSR, political activism, feminism, and writing for children
Includes new research and archival scholarship by UK- and USA-based scholars of twentieth-century literature
Features a new, never-before-published story by Mitchison based on her experiences as a delegate to an International P.E.N. conference in Zurich shortly after the Second World War
As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland's most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality, socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism, mothering, and decolonisation. The volume also features 'Europe': a previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first time. Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Mitchison's life and literary legacy.
James Purdon is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2016), co-editor (with Rex Ferguson and Melissa M. Littlefield) of The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity (Penn State University Press, 2021), and editor of British Literature in Transition, 1900-1920: A New Age? (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
