In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.
- ISBN13 9780333618783
- Publish Date 28 September 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Paperback
- Pages 171
- Language English