"Kew Gardens" and "Miss Brill" : Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield as short story writers

Wilson, J. M. (2018) "Kew Gardens" and "Miss Brill" : Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield as short story writers. In: Wilson, J. M. and Kimber, G. (eds.) Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story. Stuttgart: Ibidem. pp. 113-138.

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Abstract:	This chapter considers the literary relationship between Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, whose complex friendship between 1916 and 1920 is well documented. It suggests possible lines of influence between them, discernible in their experimentation with the short story genre during a formative period for both writers: when Woolf was writing short stories and before she had established her reputation as a novelist, and when Mansfield was approaching the mature style that would make her name as a short story writer par excellence. It will draw a comparison between two stories—Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” (1917), and Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” (1920)—both set in public gardens. As responses to similar settings that exhibit differences of modernist technique and approach the stories can also be read in relation to each other through the lens of Mansfield’s and Woolf’s inconstant friendship and literary rivalry.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, modernist short story, "public gardens" stories, "feminized sociology", "Kew Gardens", "Miss Brill"
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR6000 1900-1960 P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature
Creators:	Wilson, Janet M
Editors:	Wilson, Janet M and Kimber, Gerri
Publisher:	Ibidem
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:	27 April 2018
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 113-138
Title of Book:	Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story
Series Name:	Studies in world literature
Volume:	6
Place of Publication:	Stuttgart
Number of Pages:	325
Language:	English
ISBN:	9783838211138
Media of Output:	Print
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	Publisher
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URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10344

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