Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Biographical Preface; Introduction 'Artful Necklaces'; 1 'Scourgers and Scavengers of Society': Elizabeth von Arnim and the Critics; 2 The 'German' Novels: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The...
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Biographical Preface; Introduction 'Artful Necklaces'; 1 'Scourgers and Scavengers of Society': Elizabeth von Arnim and the Critics; 2 The 'German' Novels: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Solitary Summer and Christine; 3 'Worms of the Same Family': Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield; 4 Revenge, Lampoon and Litigation: Vera; 5 Love, Marriage, Expiation; 6 An Afterlife in Moving Images: The Enchanted April and Mr Skeffington; Afterword; Appendix; Bibliography; Index In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing and complex and compelling narrative style reward close analysis. Organised chronologically and thematically, Maddison's book is informed by unpublished material from the British and Huntington Libraries, including correspondence between von Arnim, her publishers and prominent contemporaries such as H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and her cousin Katherine Mansfield -- whose early modernist prose is se
