The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1 - by Claire Davison & Gerri Kimber (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: 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.
- 680 Pages
- Literary Collections, letters
- Series Name: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield
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About the Book
From Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life.
Book 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.From the Back Cover
A new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence Organised 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.Review Quotes
It's to be hugely celebrated [...] that this first volume of the new definitive collection of Mansfield's correspondence, ordered alphabetically by correspondent and accompanied by in-depth introductions for each correspondent, returns the life threefold to the old artefact of the letter: the life of the writer, the life of the person to whom she's writing, and finally the life of the times both people inhabited. [...]Accompanying details throughout of the lives of the correspondents before and beyond Mansfield's own life, will dimensionalise humanly and historically Mansfield's whole correspondence.
-- "Ali Smith, author"Each section of Davison and Kimber's richly researched new Letters to Correspondents is introduced with a biographical sketch of a correspondent, helping us see the nature of the impulse that moved her to write. [...] By choosing to tell their story of Mansfield's life through her relationships, Davison and Kimber transfer the emphasis normally given to her terminal illness to the extraordinary range of the relations she kept alive.--Beci Carver, University of Exeter "TLS"
About the Author
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.
