Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture

This book explores Katherine Mansfield's engagement with the periodical culture of the early twentieth century, examining her contributions to The New Age, Rhythm, and The Athenaeum. It challenges older critical assumptions about her development as a writer and highlights her ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Katherine Mansfield's engagement with the periodical culture of the early twentieth century is explored in this book, which examines her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm, and the literary journal The Athenaeum. By contextualizing Mansfield's work against the editorial strategies and professional cultures of each periodical, the book deepens and complicates older critical assumptions about the trajectory of Mansfield's development as a writer. Key Features: Provides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield's engagement with and relation to early twentieth-century periodical cultureForegrounds the original material contexts in which Mansfield produced the majority of her work, emphasizing a dialogic or conversational model for modernismInterrogates Mansfield's ambivalent self-positioning within English literary circles as a colonial-metropolitan modernist and outsider Integrates ideas of the recent transnational turn across literary studies into the field of periodical scholarship.

Weight: 476g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474439466