| Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two Contributor(s): Smith, Angela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198183984 ISBN-13: 9780198183983 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 98-48473 |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Series: Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.04 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |