Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life

Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life
ISBN-10
0333618785
ISBN-13
9780333618783
Series
Katherine Mansfield
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
183
Language
English
Published
2000-09-28
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
A. Smith

Description

In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.

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