KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND RUSIA
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017
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226 pages. Includes 25 pages article by Pierce Butler, 'The Only Truth I care About' Katherne Mansfield at the Gurdjieff Institute: A Biogrpahical Reflection.
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- Title
- KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND RUSIA
- Author
- Diment, Galya; Gerri Kimber; Todd Martin (eds.)
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Hard bound in fine condition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1474426131
- ISBN 13
- 9781474426138
- Edition
- First edition.
- Series
- Book 7 of 18: Katherine Mansfield Studies
Examines the 'Russian influence' on both Mansfield’s craft as a short story writer and her life choices
Katherine Mansfield’s passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered that the two of them shared the same deadly disease. But her fascination with Russia and its culture extended beyond Chekov and included the Ballets Russes and an interest in Russian politics, in part sparked by Maxim Gorky. She also read and assimilated several other Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Marie Bashkirtseff as well as Leo Tolstoy. This volume presents essays that engage with many aspects of Mansfield’s response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In addition, the volume presents a collection of images of Gurdjieff’s Institute at Fontainebleau, several of which have never been seen before.
Key Features
It includes contributions by both English and Russian scholarsMansfield’s personal and artistic response to Russian literature, culture, philosophy, and artExplores her responses to the actual Russians she met in England and ― towards the end of her life ― in France
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About the Author
Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25).
A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin’s primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.
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