This is an impressively wide-ranging exploration of ‘the most timely meeting of writers in the history of literature’ (Ali Smith) illuminating the unhomed, dislocated ‘other rooms’ of Woolf’s and Mansfield’s six-year-long creative dialogue, encompassing obliquely angled portraiture, cities and sisterhood seen sideways, and distancing devices of distaste. ‘Other rooms’ also open onto unexpected vistas – public gardens, gardens of earthly delights, and cultivated flower beds of philosophy, thereby redimensioning intimacy, food and body politics, animality, stage-masks, and Time itself.

Claire Davison, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle - Paris III

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf 'I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend … pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to be scrupulously truthful – and to give you the freedom of the city without any reserves at all.' Katherine Mansfield’s ardent overture to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual admiration and fascination shot through with wary misunderstandings, rivalry and envy. These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship – absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical, competitive, sometimes foundering in ‘quicksands’ – and its profound impact on their creative imaginations.
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These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Thinking Sideways through One’s Sisters Christine Froula CRITICISM Powers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Maud Ellmann Together and Apart Maria DiBattista Seated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Sydney Janet Kaplan Katherine’s SecretsChristine Froula A Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew Gardens Karina Jakubowicz ‘roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife’: Hermeneutics of the Modern Female Face in Woolf and Mansfield Halyna ChumakThe Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf, and Lawrence Cheryl HindrichsDangerous Reading in Mansfield’s Stories and Woolf’s ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’ Brian Richardson CREATIVE WRITING Talk Ali Smith: Getting Virginia Woolf's Goat Play Barbara Egel: The Point of ‘Slater’s Pins’: An Introduction Barbara Egel: Virginia Woolf's ‘Moments of Being: "Slater’s Pins Have No Points"’: A Dramatic Adaptation Poems Jackie Jones: ‘Katherine Mansfield’s Heirlooms’Maggie Rainey-Smith: ‘How too weird’ CRITICAL MISCELLANY ‘Not the kind to die’: Katherine Mansfield and the Unquiet Ghost of ‘little brother’J. Lawrence Mitchell REVIEW ESSAY ‘Which of my many […] hundreds of selves?’ Extending Mansfield’s Posthumous Literary ReputationClaire Drewery Notes on Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474439664
Publisert
2020-08-25
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Biografisk notat

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer. A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin’s primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group. Christine Froula is a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at Northwestern University, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society. She has published widely on interdisciplinary modernism, feminist theory, and genetic criticism, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Columbia UP, 2007).