Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life
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In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license 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 Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Booknews Traces Mansfield's artistic and intellectual development, specifically linking her engagement with post-impressionist art to readings of her most innovative and experimental stories. Smith (English studies, U. of Stirling, UK) focuses on Mansfield's position as a New Zealander who felt herself to be an outsider in British literary life to explore how Mansfield's idiosyncratic modernist aesthetic developed. Each chapter includes an analysis of a particular story or stories by Mansfield, to exemplify the stages of her shifting and disrupted development as a writer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
"I live to write" • The little Colonial: 1888-1908 • A born Actress and Mimic: August 1908-November 1911 • The Tiger: December 1911-October 1915 • Mansfield and Modernism: November 1915-December 1918 • The Secret Self: January 1919-January 1923
