Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction / Sydney J. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Sydney J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction & Short Stories.

Local Subjects:

Fiction & Short Stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores Katherine Mansfield's significance as a writer whose fiction and criticism influenced, reflected, and advanced modernist aesthetic principles. Sydney Janet Kaplan examines the relationship between Mansfield's contribution to modernist fiction and her struggles as a woman writer during the era of modernist experimentation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Katherine Mansfield and the Problem of Oscar Wilde

3. Sexuality Encoded

4. “The Strange Longing for the Artificial”

5. “A Gigantic Mother”: Mansfield and the City

6. The Question of Genre

7. From The Aloe to “Prelude”

8. The Feminist Imperative

9. Mansfield and Woolf: The Question of Feminist Aesthetics

10. Impersonation/Impersonality

11. Katherine Mansfield’s “Passion for Technique”

12. Conclusion: Modernism from Mansfield’s Perspective

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3684-1

OCLC:

1178769747