- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (25 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198183984
- ISBN-13: 978-0198183983
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,349,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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"Smith writes persuasively and well about these correspondences [between Mansfield and Woolf], about the influence of Post-Impressionism on both writers, and about their shared interest in the cinema, a developing art form which suddenly challenged the old linear conventions of fiction by offering unparalleled possibilities of narrative immediacy."--Times Literary Supplement
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Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by Mansfield in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, Smith explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection of modernism is interpreted through their shared experience as `threshold people', familiar with the liminal, for each of them a zone of transition and habitation. Writing at a time when the First World War and changing attitudes to empire problematized boundaries and definitions of foreignness, we see how the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterized by moments of disorienting suspension in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, the domestic made menacing.
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THE haunting presence of Katherine Mansfield recurs in Virginia Woolf's personal writing throughout her life, often as a slightly challenging phantom. Read the first page
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A Surprise!
7 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
I came at this book from the Mansfield camp and a little exhausted by all of the stale comparisons between Mansfield and Woolf. However, Smith's work is full of well-researched and thoughtful analysis. It's an amazing study--particularly of Mansfield, I think--and one that belongs on the same shelf as Kaplan's KM & THE ORIGINS OF MODERNIST FICTION and Dunbar's RADICAL MANSFIELD. Essential reading for Mansfield scholars and fans alike.
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2 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
I came at this book with an interest in Mansfield (and to a lesser extent Woolf) and was tired of the countless studies (chapters and essays) comapring the two. Needless to say, then, I approached this study with trepidation and assumed I would not think much of it. But what a surprise! Smith has done a terrific job with her research and has produced a study that towers over the others I've seen. The study smells of sweat and hard work. I put it alongside Sidney Janet Kaplan's and Patricia Dunbar's studies of Mansfield. It is one of the best.
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