Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two

by Angela Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198183983
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/20/1999
Series:	Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover)
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Stirling

Editorial Reviews

"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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