| Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism: Historicizing Modernism Contributor(s): Wilson, Janet (Editor), Kimber, Gerri (Editor), Reid, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1441111301 ISBN-13: 9781441111302 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Series: Continuum Studies in Historicizing Modernism |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Katharine Mansfield's arrival in London in 1908 marked the start of her professional career as a writer and this study marks a revival of her reputation as one of the foremost practitioners of the short story. The international line-up of contributors attests to Mansfield's global appeal. By discussing her fiction in relation to her life, the contributors to this critical work present reinterpretations and readings. Enhanced by new transcriptions of manuscripts and access to her diaries and letters, these readings combine biographical approaches with critical-theoretical ones and focus not only on philosophy and fiction, but class and gender, biography/autobiography. The historical and aesthetic studies of Mansfield's work all take place within a framework of modernist literature, criticism and theory, thereby expanding our understanding of what it means to be a Modernist while allocating Mansfield a firm place in any current study of Modernism. |