Circulating Genius : : John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence / / Sydney Janet Kaplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Sydney Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The relationship between the personal lives of writers and the works they produce is at the heart of this intriguing new study. In particular, it reconsiders the place of John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) in the development of literary modernism in Britain. Drawing on Murry's unpublished journals and long-forgotten novels, Circulating Genius examines his significance as a 'circulator' of ideas, reputations and critical positions in his roles of editor, literary critic, novelist, friend and lover and complicates the arguments of earlier biographers and critics about his relationships - both personal and professional - with Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence.Key FeaturesRewrites standard assumptions about John Middleton Murry's relationships with Katherine Mansfield and D. H. LawrenceProvides intertextual readings of fiction by Mansfield, Lawrence and MurryConsiders Murry's controversial role in the dissemination of modernist critical positionsExplores marginalisation and centrality in the creation of the modernist canon

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 ‘My Blundering Way of Learning’: Murry’s Still Life -- Chapter 2 Still Life and Women in Love -- Chapter 3 From Still Life to ‘Bliss’ -- Chapter 4 ‘A Furious Bliss’ -- Chapter 5 ‘With Cannonballs for Eyes’ -- Chapter 6 ‘The Coming Man and Woman’ -- Chapter 7 The Things We Are -- Chapter 8 Circulating Mansfield -- Chapter 9 Circulating Lawrence -- Chapter 10 Circulating Murry -- Bibliography -- Index