This interdisciplinary book sets a new agenda for international scholarship on Macaulay, and reformulates contemporary ideas about gender and genre in 20th-century British literature.

Kate Macdonald is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction, Kate Macdonald

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

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

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

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

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,

13 Annotated Bibliography of works by and about Rose Macaulay, Kate Macdonald