Deux femmes 'vagabondes': Katherine Mansfield and Colette

Kimber, G. (2016) Deux femmes 'vagabondes': Katherine Mansfield and Colette. In: Kimber, G. and Davison, C. (eds.) Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives. Amsterdam: Brill. pp. 169-188.

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Abstract:	This chapter will investigate the influence of Colette on the life and fiction writing of Katherine Mansfield. Just as she was famously influenced by Chekhov, I contend she was no less influenced by Colette, whose risqué life had particular appeal for the reckless, youthful Mansfield. The French writer would go on to become another protagonist in the saga of Mansfield’s emotional connection with France, and, on a literary level, Colette’s influence would extend throughout Mansfield’s adult writing career. Having been the first critic to offer a detailed appraisal of the influence of Colette’s book L’Envers du music-hall (Music Hall Sidelights) on Mansfield’s own writing, I shall now reveal examples of echoes and resonances in Mansfield’s fiction to other works by Colette.
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures > PQ1 French literature > PQ1600 Modern literature > PQ2600 1900-1960
Creators:	Kimber, Gerri
Editors:	Kimber, Gerri and Davison, Claire
Publisher:	Brill
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Date:	February 2016
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 169-188
Title of Book:	Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives
Series Name:	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Volume:	191
Place of Publication:	Amsterdam
Language:	English
ISBN:	9789004283688
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/8452

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