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Index
Cover
Half-title Page
Dedication Page
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Things in process and things in place
Modernism and religion
Modernism and things
Animism and material religion
Vital materialism
Enchantment and post-secularism
Material spirituality in modernist women writers
1 Threads and silver paper: Spirituality of gift and process in H.D.’s war writing
Gardenias and Gods
H.D. and wartime gift exchange
Poetry and the gift
Craft and children’s creativity
H.D.’s embroidery
Subversive stitchery
Spectres of Morris
Typing and typestry
Craft as memory work
Stitching modernism: Things in process
2 ‘The pebbles were each one alive’: Animism and Anglo-Catholicism in Mary Butts’s writing
‘An odd cup of some greenish stone’: The Grail in Armed with Madness
Pagan-Christian syncretism: The Grail in Cornwall
The Crystal Cabinet
Salterns and Tebel Vos
Anim-fetishism: Lively things in The Crystal Cabinet
Stones
Stump
Things and a soluble self
3 Darkness and dirt: Virginia Woolf’s material mysticism
Mystical Woolf: Critical positions
Apophasis, feminism and materiality
Material mysticism in Woolf
Knitting
House as uncanny other thing
The hollow
4 Radiant dandelions: Gwendolyn Brooks’s domestic sublime
Brooks and animism
Maud Martha
Radiance of dandelions
Domestic space: Precarity and sanctuary
Home in Maud Martha
The magazine home
Mrs Burns-Cooper’s and the kitchenette
Maud Martha’s childhood home
Domestic sublime
Kitchenette redux: Aesthetics and justice
5 Things in the city
Modernist cityscapes
The secret matrix of Paris
Affect, interiors and urban wandering in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting’
Things in the war-torn city
Apocalypse when?
Roses in the Mecca: Liveliness and loss in Gwendolyn Brooks’s urban epic
The spiritual lives of things
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright Page
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