Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf : a public of two / Angela Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Angela, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

English-speaking countries.

History.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.

Modernism (Literature).

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Split self in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 238 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by Mansfied in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, Angela Smith explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Writing at a time when the First World War and the changing attitudes towards empire problematized definitions of foreignness, the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterized by moments in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, the domestic made menacing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-234) and index.

ISBN:

0198183984

OCLC:

40135347