Title: Katherine Mansfield
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Authors, New Zealand, Biography, New Zealand Authors, Mansfield, katherine, 1888-1923, Authors
People: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9639.3.M258 Z877 2000