Katherine Mansfield??French Lives

Many of the essays gathered here are revised versions of papers presented in June 2014 at the International Katherine Mansfield Conference held in Paris. Contributors in modernist literature and women’s studies, many experts on the work of modernist writer Katherine Mansfield, explore Mansfield’s literary efforts and travels in France as a single woman during WWI and after WWI. They describe her role in fostering European writers and artists in symbolism, post-impressionism, music, and philosophy, including Beatrice Hastings and poet Francis Carco. Essays explore her literary depictions of France and demonstrate how Mansfield was influenced by the works of Marcel Proust and Colette. The book includes b&w/tinted historical photos and manuscript pages. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, and specialises in trans-European and transmedial modernisms. She is the author ofTranslation as Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S. S. Koteliansky (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Dr Gerri Kimber is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton and Chair of the international Katherine Mansfield Society. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the Series Editor of the 4 vol.Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16).