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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820948703321

Autore

Ailwood Sarah

Titolo

Katherine Mansfield and literary influence / / edited by Sarah Ailwood and Melinda Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4744-2227-6

0-7486-9442-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Classificazione

HQ 3639

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 'Like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror': Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence; Part I Ambivalence; 2 'The Twilight of Language': The Young Evelyn Waugh on 'Catherine' Mansfield; 3 'Where is she?' Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen; Part II Exchange; 4 '[O]ur precious art': Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Gift Economy; 5 'The Silence is Broken': Katherine Mansfield and the 'Manifesto Moment'

6 Circles of Influence: Katherine Mansfield, S. S. Koteliansky and Russia Part III Identification; 7 'Worms of the Same Family': Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim; 8 'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage of Colette and Katherine Mansfield; Part IV Imitation; 9 'God forgive me, Tchehov, for my impertinence': Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Copying; 10 '[A]ctively making one feel': Katherine Mansfield, Evolving Empathy and Intimate Influence in Virginia Woolf's Writings of the 1920s and 1930s; Part V Enchantment; 11 Mansfield eats Dickens

12 Katherine Mansfield, Nettie Palmer and Critical Influence13 The meeting of Katherine Mansfield and Eve Langley; Part VI Legacy; 14 Mansfield, Shakespeare and the Unanxiety of Influence;  15 The 'Burden' of the Feminine: Frank Sargeson's Encounter with Katherine Mansfield; 16 Writing from the Cellar: Revisiting the Villa Isola Bella; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography ; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book maps the ecologies of Mansfield's influences beyond her modernist and postcolonial contexts, observing that it roams wildly over six centuries, across three continents and beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries.