Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

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

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