Naomi Mitchison

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).

To read Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time is to relive the twentieth century through the writings of one of its most imaginative, inventive and inspiring women. Here, for the first time, eminent critics come together to celebrate　Mitchison as a major writer of Scotland, Britain and the postwar, postimperial world.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJames PurdonNaomi Mitchison’s Interwar Short StoriesLeo Mellor‘She had her hand on the plow’: Shame, Uncertainty and Transformation in The Corn King and the Spring QueenNick HubbleVarieties of Sexual Experience: Naomi Mitchison, Mysticism and Gerald HeardImogen WoodberryScientific Temporalities in We Have Been Warned and ‘Beyond This Limit’Catriona LivingstoneSend in the Clones?: Naomi Mitchison and the Politics of Reproduction and MotherhoodLesley A. HallFrom Argyll With Love: Naomi Mitchison and the Soviet UnionHenry SteadFire or Blood?: Aestheticizing Resistance in Naomi Mitchison’s The Blood of the MartyrsMegan Faragher‘the summoning　urgent thing’:　The Bull Calves　and the Drive to　Experiment at　Mid-CenturyAdam PietteMitchison, Decolonisation, and African ModernityJames PurdonNaomi Mitchison’s ‘Europe’James Purdon‘Europe’Bibliography