The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1 : Letters to Correspondents a - J

Claire Davison

ISBN 10: 1474445446 / ISBN 13: 9781474445443

Editore: Edinburgh University Press Feb 2020, 2020

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Neuware - A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondenceOrganised by recipient, this innovative 4-volume edition allows the reader to explore and share Katherine Mansfield's individual relationships via her letters. Well-known Mansfield scholars Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber have returned to the author's original letters, retranscribing and fully annotating them, incorporating recently discovered biographical material as well as previously unpublished letters. As the four volumes in the Collected Letters reveal, letter writing was an essential part of Mansfield's literary production.From 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.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.

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• Titolo: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1 : Letters to Correspondents a - J
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press Feb 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474445446
• ISBN 13: 9781474445443
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 239 L x 162 A x 41 P (millimetri) 239 millimetri di larghezza per 162 millimetri di altezza per 41 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1100 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sugli autori

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, where her teaching and research focus on the borders and boundaries of modernism; this includes the translation and reception of Russian literature in the 1910s-20s, cross-Channel modernist dialogues, and literary and musical modernism. Her current research bears on modernist soundscapes and broadcasting in the 1920s-30s.

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.

Claire Davison, Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, is the current Chair of the French Virginia Woolf Society.

Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society.