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Histories of the Human Hand: Huxley and Isherwood’s Jacob’s Hands and Modernist Manual Culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Garrington, A. (2023). Histories of the Human Hand: Huxley and Isherwood’s Jacob’s Hands and Modernist Manual Culture. In A. Kern-Stähler, & E. Robertson (Eds.), Literature and the Senses (392-412). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843777.003.0022

Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood’s Jacob’s Hands (1944) has long been thought a curiosity or a failure—a screen treatment that never became a film. Yet it might reasonably be reframed, indeed best understood, as a vital text exploring modernis... Read More about Histories of the Human Hand: Huxley and Isherwood’s Jacob’s Hands and Modernist Manual Culture.

Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralisé of the British Press (2021)
Book Chapter
Garrington, A. (2021). Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralisé of the British Press. In J. Purdon (Ed.), British Literature in Transition, vol. I: 1900-1920 (158-176). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648714.010

In the years 1900–20, polar exploration and high-altitude mountaineering became entrenched as features of British newspapers and the pictorial press. Meeting and propagating the appetites of an emerging audience of ‘armchair’ explorers, such publicat... Read More about Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralisé of the British Press.

Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath (2021)
Book Chapter
Garrington, A. (2021). Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath. In C. Saunders, D. Fuller, & J. Macnaughton (Eds.), The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (391-408). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_19

One year after the Hillary/Tenzing ascent of Everest, W. H. Auden’s ‘Mountains’ (1954) describes climbers as ‘those unsmiling parties, / Clumping off at dawn in the gear of their mystery / For points up’. By this time, such gear was likely to include... Read More about Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath.

'Write me a little letter': The George Mallory/Marjorie Holmes Correspondence (2016)
Journal Article
Garrington, A. (2016). 'Write me a little letter': The George Mallory/Marjorie Holmes Correspondence

In November 2015, Bonhams auction house of Knightsbridge, London sold for £12,500 a lot comprising 10 letters from the moun taineer George Mallory. Purchased by an as yet undisclosed private buyer, the letters span a single year. They begin in March... Read More about 'Write me a little letter': The George Mallory/Marjorie Holmes Correspondence.