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After Life – Expressions of Mourning in Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield
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Like many women, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim lost members of their immediate family in the Great War, and both writers worked through their loss in writing. Although their work is stylistically and thematically different, the expressions of grief in their work shares certain characteristics with other (post-)war writing. This article examines the literary responses to personal to loss in von Arnim’s novels
Christine
and
In the Mountains
, as well as Mansfield’s New Zealand stories and “The Fly” with the help of their private diaries and letters.
Title: After Life – Expressions of Mourning in Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield
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Like many women, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim lost members of their immediate family in the Great War, and both writers worked through their loss in writing.
Although their work is stylistically and thematically different, the expressions of grief in their work shares certain characteristics with other (post-)war writing.
This article examines the literary responses to personal to loss in von Arnim’s novels
Christine
and
In the Mountains
, as well as Mansfield’s New Zealand stories and “The Fly” with the help of their private diaries and letters.
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