Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace

At the Mercy of the Public

J. McDonnell

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780230282049
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examineshow she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: ‘Principles as Light as my Purse’
• 1 ‘Too Sharply Modelled’: Mansfield and the New Age 1910–11
• 2 ‘An Editorial Dogfight’: Murry, Rhythm and the Blue Review 1912–13
• 3 ‘A Sort of Authority’: From Signature to the Hogarth Press 1915–18
• 4 ‘A Writer First’: ‘Je ne parle pas français’, the Athenaeum and Bliss 1919–20
• 5 ‘At the Mercy of the Public’: The London Mercury, the Sphere and The Garden Party 1921–2
• Afterword: ‘Boiling Katherine’s Bones’
• Appendix: Major Periodical Publications (1910–22)
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index