This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and ev... » 

This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. «