Katherine Mansfield and the modernist marketplace
Subtitle: at the mercy of the public
By: Jenny McDonnell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230234796
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Criticism and interpretation
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "principles as light as my purse"; title: "Too sharply modelled" : Mansfield and the New Age 1910-11; title: "A sort of authority" : from Signature to the Hogarth Press 1915-18; title: "A writer first" : "je ne parle pas français", the Athenaeum and Bliss 1919-20; title: "At the mercy of the public" : the London Mercury, the Sphere and The Garden Party 1921-2; title: Afterword : major periodical publications (1920-22).