![]() ![]() The very notion of objective truth was viewed as suspect by Mansfield. What Mansfield had in common with other modernist writers, including those who were male, is a questioning of the nature of truth and reality a challenging of the certainties and assumptions that had underpinned Victorian fiction. ![]() ![]() But the growth of feminist literary criticism in the 1970s, particularly the work of Hélène Cixous and others in France, has led to a reappraisal of Mansfield’s work, and in particular her short stories. Katherine Mansfield was, until recently, regarded as very much a minor figure in the development of modernism. Sally Ledger, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle (Manchester & New York, Manchester University Press, 1997) Yeats – these are the names which have dominated the English modernist literary canon, with Virginia Woolf representing a token female presence. Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. ![]()
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