The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Letters to Correspondents A-J - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474445446 ISBN 13 : 9781474445443

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence

Provides accurate transcriptions that shed new light on the everyday, intimate world of Mansfield as a letter-writerOrganised A-Z, which foregrounds the lives and personalities of her correspondents, along with the various self-fictionalising games that the letter-writer playedShowcases letters and sections of letters that have never previously been publishedProvides meticulous explanatory notes and rich contextual informationOffers extensive attention to the cultural and socio-political context of the correspondenceFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life. A detailed introduction, together with biographical portraits for each correspondent, enhance the cultural and socio-historical context, while the letters themselves offer a detailed exposé of Mansfield's life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of war and disease, to nature and the environment and fashions and food. The volume also reveals the intimacies of some of Mansfield's most prized friendships.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474445446
• ISBN 13: 9781474445443
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 680
• Éditeur: Davison Claire, Kimber Gerri
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible