At Home Among the Russians: The Short Stories of Olive Garnett and Katherine Mansfield

2017 ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Frances Reading
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Great War ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this article is to incorporate the little-studied writer, Olive Garnett, into the discussion surrounding Katherine Mansfield in relation to Russian themes. Both Mansfield and Garnett had a common interest in Russia and, writing in the same literary milieu, both wrote short stories about Russia and Russians. Where the interest in Russia comes from for Garnett and Mansfield forms a substantial part of this article. Both were influenced by various Russian radicals and philosophers, such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky who conceivably served to inspire the writing of both women. The context will stem from the ‘Russomania’ that took hold from the 1880s onwards, culminating in the subsequent fin-de-siècle and post-Great War paranoias within the British national consciousness which expressed itself in the form of prejudice towards the foreign Other. It will consider the influence Russia, and Russian people, had on the style and work of Mansfield and Garnett, and in turn reveal how both writers present Russia.

The ‘Polish Mecca’, the ‘Little Vienna on the Vistula’ or ‘Big-City Cracow’? Imagining Cracow before the Great War

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
NATHANIEL D. WOOD
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Big City ◽  
The Great War

ABSTRACT:This article explores the tendency of citizens to liken their city to other cities in an effort to promote particular visions of their hometown. It examines three mythic visions offin-de-siècleCracow – the Polish Mecca, the Little Vienna on the Vistula and modern Big-City Cracow – as reflected in contemporary accounts and historical scholarship, demonstrating how they functioned to promote national, imperial and interurban identification. Most critical of the national vision, the article advocates a broader perspective.

scholarly journals MAURICE LEBLANC - “GRANDSON OF FLAUBERT”?

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Kirill Chekalov
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The City

Maurice Leblanc, Gustave Flaubert’s countryman, author of the famous series of novels and short stories about adventures of “gentleman-burglar” Arsène Lupin, from his youth had an interest in works of the author of Madame Bovary . The interest was shared by his sister Georgette Leblanc, a singer, actress and writer. This essay critically examins the early prose of Maurice Leblanc, its connections with the traditions of Flaubert and with typical for “fin de siècle” erotic prose of decadence. A special attention is paid to the novel A woman and its parallels and allusions to Madame Bovary . This essay shows the peculiarities of Leblanc’s description of Roune (against the background of a nagative perception of the city by Flaubert).

The Awakening

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Chopin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Artistic Freedom

‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna’s rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, ‘The Storm’.

John Lane's Keynotes Series and the Fiction of the 1890's

PMLA ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 1407-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell V. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Complete Listing

AbstractThe Keynotes Series was the result of one of John Lane's schemes for calling attention to new writers and trends. These fourteen novels and nineteen volumes of short stories published between 1894 and 1897 represent a significant cross section of what Lane, whose Bodley Head Press was regarded as the center of fin de siècle literary attitudes, thought new and modish. An examination of the contents of the Series is useful in seeing the 1890's in perspective: conventional morality is there defended more often than attacked, decadent themes are few but technical experiments in structure and style many, and Hardy, not Wilde or Pater, exercises the greatest influence. (The first complete listing of the Series is included.)

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