Katherine Mansfield
Author | : Angela Smith |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2001-01-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 0333618777 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780333618776 |
Rating | : 4/5 (776 Downloads) |
Download or read book Katherine Mansfield written by Angela Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license 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 Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.