Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life

by Angela K. Smith

Book Overview

In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333618785
• ISBN13: 9780333618783
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"