Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 1 (Hardcover)

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 1 By Delia Da Sousa Correa (Editor), Gerri Kimber (Editor) Cover Image

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 1 (Hardcover)

By Delia Da Sousa Correa (Editor), Gerri Kimber (Editor)

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New scholarly assessments of Katherine Mansfield's relationships with Continental Europe and the European reception of her work

The inaugural volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies illuminates Mansfield's literary and personal relationships with Continental Europe. The essays explore Mansfield's absorption of French literature and thought, highlighting affinities with Henri Bergson's interpretations of consciousness and with the writings of Marcel Proust. There are important insights into the memorable letters written by Mansfield whilst trapped in Paris under German Bombardment in 1918. Beyond France, we are offered an intriguing view of Mansfield's literary and critical afterlife in Czechoslovakia, and of the cosmopolitanism that characterised her entire life and writing. Also in this volume - appearing in the wake of the publication of the final volume of her collected letters - Mansfield's own practice as a reviewer is explored as a counter-balance to her current critical reception. With a preface by a distinguished editor and scholar of Mansfield and a rich creative writing section that includes work by several eminent New Zealand writers.

Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University and co-convenor of the OU's Literature and Music Research Group. She studied in New Zealand, London, and Oxford and previously taught at the universities of Oxford and St Petersburg. Her research explores connections between literature and music in the Victorian and early-modernist periods. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.
Product Details ISBN: 9780748684700
ISBN-10: 0748684700
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: October 31st, 2009
Pages: 144
Language: English
Series: Katherine Mansfield Studies