'Gail Jones...brings Theodor Adorno's characterisation of the post-war era, T.J. Clark's thoughts on modernist visual imagery and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project into dialogue with White's post-war novel, The Aunt's Story, providing a deeply insightful mediation on its infamous middle section, the 'Jardin Exotique', to reassess the controversial spiritualism of White's work. (Introduction 9)