Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches

Katherine Mansfield is widely recognized as a key author of her generation, influencing literary modernism and the short story genre. This volume explores her influences, including familial, historical, geographical, literary, and artistic approaches, and investigates her fascinating connection with Poland, her connections to other English and American writers, and her writing process.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Katherine Mansfield has garnered widespread acclaim as a pivotal figure in her generation, exerting a lasting influence on literary modernism and the short story genre through her itinerant lifestyle, colonial outlook, diverse interests, and extensive network of literary acquaintances. This comprehensive volume harnesses these seemingly boundless avenues for critical inquiry, delving into Mansfield's influences, encompassing familial, historical, geographical, literary, and artistic perspectives. While some connections are well-established and widely recognized, others remain contentious, while numerous undiscovered connections await exploration. This volume presents a fresh assemblage of original insights into Katherine Mansfield's life and work, often inseparable in her own narrative. It explores her intriguing relationship with Poland in intricate and comprehensive detail, offering a novel perspective on her connections with other English and American writers. Furthermore, it examines various aspects of her writing process, her engagement with the arts, imagination, memories, and her constructions of different types of space.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032058566