Katherine Mansfield's French Lives.

Intro -- Katherine Mansfield's French Lives -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Mansfield in France -- 1: Mansfield and Murry's Sojourns in France: A Bi-national Quarrel -- 2: Une profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France -- 3: Katherine Mansfield's Russian Healers -- 4: Francis Carco, The Poet of 'Paname' -- PART 2: Literary Representations of France -- 5: A Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris in Katherine Mansfield's 'A Little Episode' -- 6 'For all Parisians are more than half-': Stereotypes and Physical Love in Katherine Mansfield's Writing -- 7: Looking for a Resting Place: Travel and Defamiliarisation in Katherine Mansfield's 'Epilogue I: Pension Seguin' -- 8: 'Alors, Je Pars': Katherine Mansfield and the New Age, 1915-17 -- PART 3: Mansfield and French Literature -- 9: Katherine Mansfield and Anima Mundi: France and the Tradition of Nature Personified -- 10: Katherine Mansfield, Proust and Baudelaire: On the Questionable Issue of Literary Influence -- 11: Art Collectors and Artists: Love in the Works of Marcel Proust and Katherine Mansfield -- 12: Deux Femmes 'Vagabondes': Katherine Mansfield and Colette -- PART 4: Intercultural Approaches: The Arts and Languages of France -- 13: Artistic Coalescence and Synthetic Performance: Katherine Mansfield and her 'Rhythms' -- 14: Rethinking Mansfield Through Gaudier-Brzeska: Monumentality and Intimacy -- 15: 'Dames seules' Lost in Translation: The French Language in Katherine Mansfield's Stories -- 16: Writing the Undiscovered Country: Katherine Mansfield, Childhood and France -- Index.

The volume traces the literary, cultural and biographical influence of both French arts and philosophy, and émigré life in France, on Mansfield's evolution as a key modernist writer, setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of Anglo-French modernism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.