Circulating genius
Subtitle: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence
By: by Sydney Janet Kaplan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780748641482
Subjects: Influence; Modernism (Literature); Friends and associates; Criticism and interpretation
Description: The relationship between the personal lives of writers and the works they produce is at the heart of this intriguing new study. In particular, it reconsiders the place of John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) in the development of literary modernism in Britain. Drawing on Murry's unpublished journals and long-forgotten novels, Circulating Genius examines his significance as a 'circulator' of ideas, reputations and critical positions in his roles of editor, literary critic, novelist, friend and lover and complicates the arguments of earlier biographers and critics about his relationships - both personal and professional - with Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. Key Features Rewrites standard assumptions about John Middleton Murry's relationships with Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. Provides intertextual readings of fiction by Mansfield, Lawrence and Murry. Considers Murry's controversial role in the dissemination of modernist critical positions. Explores marginalisation and centrality in the creation of the modernist canon
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: My blundering way of learning : Murry's still life; title: Still life and women in love; title: From still life to bliss; title: A furious bliss; title: With cannonballs for eyes; title: The coming man and woman; title: The things we are; title: Circulating Mansfield; title: Circulating Lawrence; title: Circulating Murry.