![]() 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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