Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

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Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

A Manuscript Critical Edition

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Katherine Mansfield

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Collection: Modernist Archives

Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Academic

Published on: 15th June 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 344 pages

ISBN: 9781350096660


About Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield's creative process.

Content and Features

With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings exploring the manuscript history of these stories.

Included Stories

The stories included are: Je ne parle pas francais; Sun and Moon; Revelations; The Stranger; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Mr and Mrs Dove; Marriage à la Mode; The Voyage; Six Years After; The Fly.

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