Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time

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