CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction, Kate Macdonald
Part I: The Body and the Mind
2 Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: Gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others, Jessica Gildersleeve
3 The dangerous ages of Rose Macaulay, Cynthia Port
Part II: Public and Private Gender Identity
4 ‘Imprisoned in a cage of print’: Rose Macaulay, journalism and gender, Sarah Lonsdale
5 ‘Mentally neutral’: An improbable tale of gender in Geneva, Juliane Römhild
Part III: Women in Society
6 "Thought is everything": Women’s work in Rose Macaulay’s First World War novels, Melissa Edmundson
7 The domestic modern, the primitive and the middlebrow in Crewe Train, Ann Rea
8 Constructing a public persona: Rose Macaulay’s non-fiction, Kate Macdonald
Part IV: Genre in Language
9 ‘Ghosts of words’: gendering history, language and pleasure in They Were Defeated (1932), Diana Wallace
10 The Towers of Trebizond. Language and the joys and paradoxes of the modern world, Maria Stella Florio
Part V: Landscapes in Genre
11 A catastrophic imagination: Rose Macaulay and the cosmopolitan Pleasure of Ruins, Christina Svendsen
12 Rose Macaulay’s ‘Turkey Book’: The Towers of Trebizond as ironic travelogue,
Lisa Regan
13 Annotated Bibliography of works by and about Rose Macaulay, Kate Macdonald
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Kate Macdonald is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK.
