Modernist Short Fiction and Things

Aimée Gasston is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Recipient of a Harry Ransom Fellowship and the fourth Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, she co-edited Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (2020) and is Vice-Chair of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Virginia Woolf’s Armchair Aesthetics.- Chapter 2: Katherine Mansfield and the Story-as-Snack.- Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories.- Conclusion: Stories and their Objects, Reading and Being.