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Illness, gender, and writing

the case of Katherine Mansfield

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An edition of Illness, gender, and writing (1994)

Illness, gender, and writing

the case of Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield is remembered for writing brilliant short stories that helped to initiate the modernist period in British fiction, and for the fact that her life - lived at a feverish pace on the fringes of Bloomsbury during the First World War - ended after a prolonged battle with pulmonary disease when she was only thirty-four years old.

While her life was marred by emotional and physical afflictions of the most extreme kind, argues Mary Burgan in Illness, Gender, and Writing, her stories have seemed to exist in isolation from those afflictions - as stylish expressions of the "new," as romantic triumphs of art over tragic circumstances, or as wavering expressions of Mansfield's early feminism.

In the first book to look at the continuum of a writer's life and work in terms of that writer's various illnesses, Burgan explores Katherine Mansfield's recurrent emotional and physical afflictions as the ground of her writing.

Mansfield is remarkably suited to this approach, Burgan contends, because her "illnesses" ranged from such early psychological afflictions as separation anxiety, body image disturbances, and fear of homosexuality to bodily afflictions that included miscarriage and abortion, venereal disease, and tuberculosis. Offering a thorough and provocative reading of Mansfield's major texts, Illness, Gender, and Writing shows how Mansfield negotiated her illnesses and, in so doing, sheds new light on the study of women's creativity.

Mansfield's drive toward self-integration, Burgan concludes, was her strategy for writing - and for staying alive.

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Illness, gender, and writing: the case of Katherine Mansfield
1994, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.
Spine title: Illness, gender & writing.

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Other Titles
Illness, gender & writing.

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR9639.3.M258 Z587 1994, PR9639.3.M258Z587

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Pagination
xxii, 217 p. :
Number of pages
217

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OL1080608M
Internet Archive
illnessgenderwri0000burg
ISBN 10
0801848733
LCCN
94004107
OCLC/WorldCat
29876820
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486185

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