Katherine Mansfield and Russia
Galya Diment (Editor), Gerri Kimber (Editor), W. Todd Martin (Editor), Aimee Gasston
Attracting the interest of scholars of modernism and readers of Mansfield alike, Katherine Mansfield Studies offers fresh critical insights and new work by distinguished writers. 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 Chekhov 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. The essays in this volume 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. Book jacket
Print Book, English, 2017
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017