@article{1439008,
      recid = {1439008},
      author = {Gasston, Aimée,},
      title = {Modernist short fiction and things /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {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.},
      abstract = {This book reappraises the philosophical value of short  fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and  Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of  specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs,  Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion  accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between  these stories form and contents and also considers the  modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their  short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental  even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this  book shows how these important women writers brought  quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that  tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence.  Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that  short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning  as a resonant source for investigation and complementing  and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.  ' It offers a suggestive analysis of the ways in which  three modernist writers mobilise the thing-like quality of  the short story form for an exploration of the uncanniness  of the object world. The close readings of Woolf, Mansfield  and Bowen are inventive, thoughtful and perceptive. - Clare  Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of  Southampton, UK.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439008},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78544-4},
}