Katherine Mansfield and Russia / / W. Todd Martin, Galya Diment, Gerri Kimber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Diment, Galya,; Kimber, Gerri,; Martin, W. Todd,
• MitwirkendeR: Adcock, Fleur,; Butler, Pierce,; Davison, Claire,; Diment, Galya,; Kimber, Gerri,; Lipsey, Roger,; Marshall, Owen,; Nadel, Ira,; Rampton, David,; Reading, Frances,; Whiteley, Giles,; Whyte, Jessica,; Zimring, Rishona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Katherine Mansfield Studies : KMS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations

Examines the 'Russian influence' on both Mansfield’s craft as a short story writer and her life choicesKatherine Mansfield’s passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered that the two of them shared the same deadly disease. But her fascination with Russia and its culture extended beyond Chekov and included the Ballets Russes and an interest in Russian politics, in part sparked by Maxim Gorky. She also read and assimilated several other Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Marie Bashkirtseff as well as Leo Tolstoy. This volume presents essays that engage with many aspects of Mansfield’s response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In addition, the volume presents a collection of images of Gurdjieff’s Institute at Fontainebleau, several of which have never been seen before.Key FeaturesIt includes contributions by both English and Russian scholarsMansfield’s personal and artistic response to Russian literature, culture, philosophy, and artExplores her responses to the actual Russians she met in England and — towards the end of her life — in France

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Criticism -- ‘Je ne parle pas français’: Reading Mansfield’s Underground Man -- Post Diagnosis: Bashkirtseff, Chekhov and Gorky through Mansfield’s Prism of Tuberculosis -- ‘A child of the sun’: Katherine Mansfield, Orientalism and Gurdjieff -- Near Misses: From Gerhardi to Mansfield (and back), via Anton Chekhov -- Mansfield, Movement and the Ballets Russes -- At Home Among the Russians: The Short Stories of Olive Garnett and Katherine Mansfield -- ‘The only truth I really care about.’ Katherine Mansfield at the Gurdjieff Institute: A Biographical Reflection -- Creative Writing -- Short Story -- Owen Marshall: ‘The English Visitor’ -- Poetry -- Tinakori Road -- Remedy -- Creative Non-fiction -- Chez Monsieur Gurdjieff -- Critical Miscellany -- The Tree of Knowledge: New Insights on Katherine Mansfield, Oscar Wilde and ‘A Woman’ -- A Note on Some Unidentified Sources in Mansfield’s Reading from 1907 -- Addicted to Mansfield: A Glimpse at the Ruth Elvish Mantz Collection in Texas -- Review Essay -- Katherine Mansfield in a Global Context -- Notes on Contributors -- Index