Katherine Mansfield
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Angela Smith.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.; Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves - to spread over the flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I wrote with acid'. By focusing on Mansfield's position as a New Zealander, feeling herself to be an outsider in British literary life, this book explores how Mansfield's idiosyncratic Modernist aesthetic developed.

When she came in contact with a group of Fauvist artists and writers who were mostly not English, and not part of Bloomsbury, Mansfield began to create her sharp-edged stories, a literary Fauvism in search of the secret self. The book traces Mansfield's artistic and intellectural development, specifically linking her engagement with Post-Impressionism to readings of her most innovative and experimental stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166) and index.