Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace [electronic resource] : At the Mercy of the Public /
McDonnell, J.author.
Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-214) and index.
Introduction : "principles as light as my purse" -- "Too sharply modelled" : Mansfield and the New Age 1910-11 -- "A sort of authority" : from Signature to the Hogarth Press 1915-18 -- "A writer first" : "je ne parle pas français", the Athenaeum and Bliss 1919-20 -- "At the mercy of the public" : the London Mercury, the Sphere and The Garden Party 1921-2 -- Afterword : major periodical publications (1920-22).
Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.