Format:
Online Ressource
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illustrations, portraits
ISBN:
9781409411680
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1409411680
Content:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Biographical Preface; Introduction 'Artful Necklaces'; 1 'Scourgers and Scavengers of Society': Elizabeth von Arnim and the Critics; 2 The 'German' Novels: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Solitary Summer and Christine; 3 'Worms of the Same Family': Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield; 4 Revenge, Lampoon and Litigation: Vera; 5 Love, Marriage, Expiation; 6 An Afterlife in Moving Images: The Enchanted April and Mr Skeffington; Afterword; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Content:
In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing and complex and compelling narrative style reward close analysis. Organised chronologically and thematically, Maddison's book is informed by unpublished material from the British and Huntington Libraries, including correspondence between von Arnim, her publishers and prominent contemporaries such as H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and her cousin Katherine Mansfield -- whose early modernist prose is se
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
1409411672
Additional Edition:
9781409411673
Additional Edition:
9781409411673
Additional Edition:
9781472403957
Additional Edition:
9781409411673
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Maddison, Isobel Elizabeth Von Arnim Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013
Language:
English
Keywords:
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