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Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield’s French Lives explores how both the literary, cultural, editorial and biographical influence of French arts and philosophy, and life as an émigré in France shaped Mansfield’s evolution as a key modernist writer, while setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of Anglo-French modernism. Mansfield’s many stays in France were decisive in intellectual, personal and psychological terms: discovering ‘Murry’s Paris’ and the Left Bank; escaping to the War Zone to join Francis Carco; living as a civilian in wartime during the bombardments of Paris; travelling and finding lodgings as a single woman in war-ravaged towns; the experience of bereavement and debilitating ill-health abroad; and the joys and pitfalls for an outsider of a foreign land and idiom.
Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Mansfield in France Sydney Janet Kaplan Mansfield and Murry’s Sojourns in France: A Bi-National Quarrel Louise Edensor Un profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in France Galya Diment Katherine Mansfield’s Russian Healers Gilles Freyssinet Francis Carco: The Poet of ‘Paname’ Part Two: Literary Representations of France W. Todd Martin A Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘A Little Episode’ Janka Kascakova ‘For all Parisians are more than half–’: Stereotypes and Physical Love in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing Gina Wisker Looking for a Resting Place: Travel and Defamiliarisation in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Epilogue I: Pension Seguin’ Chris Mourant ‘Alors, Je Pars’: Katherine Mansfield and the New Age, 1915-17 Part Three: Mansfield and French Literature Janet Wilson Katherine Mansfield and Anima Mundi: France and the Tradition of Nature Personified Anne Mounic Katherine Mansfield, Proust and Baudelaire: On the Questionable Issue of Literary Influence Mirosława Kubasiewicz Art Collectors and Artists: Love in the Works of Marcel Proust and Katherine Mansfield Gerri Kimber Deux Femmes ‘Vagabondes’: Katherine Mansfield and Colette Part Four: Intercultural Approaches: The Arts and Languages of France Tracy Miao Artistic Coalescence and Synthetic Performance: Katherine Mansfield and her ‘Rhythms’ Rishona Zimring Rethinking Mansfield Through Gaudier-Brzeska: Monumentality and Intimacy Josiane Paccaud-Huguet ‘Dames seules’ Lost in Translation: The French Language in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio Writing the Undiscovered Country: Katherine Mansfield, Childhood and France Notes on Contributors Index
