Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction / / Sydney J. Kaplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Sydney J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Problem of Oscar Wilde --; 3. Sexuality Encoded --; 4. “The Strange Longing for the Artificial” --; 5. “A Gigantic Mother”: Mansfield and the City --; 6. The Question of Genre --; 7. From The Aloe to “Prelude” --; 8. The Feminist Imperative --; 9. Mansfield and Woolf: The Question of Feminist Aesthetics --; 10. Impersonation/Impersonality --; 11. Katherine Mansfield’s “Passion for Technique” --; 12. Conclusion: Modernism from Mansfield’s Perspective --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501736841; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501736841
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sydney J. Kaplan.

This book explores Katherine Mansfield's significance as a writer whose fiction and criticism influenced, reflected, and advanced modernist aesthetic principles. Sydney Janet Kaplan examines the relationship between Mansfield's contribution to modernist fiction and her struggles as a woman writer during the era of modernist experimentation.