‘The Silence is Broken’: Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Manifesto Moment’
‘The Silence is Broken’: Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Manifesto Moment’
This chapter explores Katherine Mansfield’s desire to influence other writers through exchange as ‘a quieter rehearsal of ideas amongst friends and artists’, an alternative to the ‘high manifesto’ favoured by her male contemporaries and collaborators D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry. Mansfield's letters, a form premised on exchange, reveal her conscious desire and determination to impress her ideas about art and life on her contemporaries. This chapter prioritises literary influence through the text itself, illustrating how, through her stories, reviews and letters, Mansfield was able to exert influence even at a distance from her friends and colleagues, exploiting her position as a successful, published writer to didactically advise others.
Keywords: Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, John Middleton Murry, literary influence, manifesto, modernism, letters, literary criticism
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