In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.
| ISBN: | 9780333618776 |
| Publication date: | 6th January 2001 |
| Author: | Angela Smith |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 161 pages |
| Series: | Macmillan Literary Lives |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |