Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism

A reinterpretation of Katherine Mansfield's work that expands our understanding of her place in Modernism.

This collection of wide-ranging and stimulating essays attests to the renewed and burgeoning interest in the work of Katherine Mansfield... the sophisticated and innovative analyses offered in this collection stand as a fitting tribute to a writer who herself was intent on exploring 'what lies beneath the rich strange surfaces'. This collection not only sheds a new light on a writer frequently sidelined in critical work in modernist studies, but importantly opens a clear pathway for further re-evaluation of Mansfield's role in the production of British modernism and our understandings of its many complexities.

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Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, Research Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Gerri Kimber is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton. She is Series Editor of the four-volume Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield.

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A reinterpretation of Katharine Mansfield's work that expands our understanding of her place in Modernism.

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Preface Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Sue Reid \ Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism J. Lawrence Mitchell \ Part I: Mansfield and Modernism I: Philosophy and Fiction \ 1. Mansfield, Rhythm and the Émigré Connection Gerri Kimber \ 2. Katherine Mansfield, Rhythm and Henri Bergson Eiko Nakano \ 3. The Famous New Zealand Mag.- Story Writer: Katherine Mansfield, Periodical Publishing and the Short Story Jenny McDonnell \ 4. 'Authentic Existence' and the Characters of Katherine Mansfield Miroslawa Kubasiewizc \ Part II: Mansfield and Modernism II: Self, Voice and Other \ 5. Elusiveness of the World and a Person: The Borders of Cognition in Katherine Mansfield's Stories Joanna Kokot \ 6. Un-Defining the Self in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield Nancy Gray \ 7. '-Ah, what is it? - that I heard': Voice and Affect in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fictions Anne Besnault-Levita \ 8. Kezia in Wonderland Delphine Soulhat \ Part III: Mansfield: Class and Gender \ 9. 'The Women in the Stor(y)': Disjunctive Vision in Mansfield's 'The Aloe' Bruce Harding \ 10. 'A City of One's Own': Women, Social Class and London in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories Ana Belén López Pérez \ 11. 'My Insides Are All Twisted Up': When Distortion and the Grotesque became 'the same job' in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Gerardo Rodríguez Salas with Isabel María Andrés Cuevas \ 12. 'On the Subject of Maleness': The `Different Worlds of Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence Susan Reid \ Part IV: Mansfield: Biography/Autobiography \ 13. The Mansfield Legacy Kathleen Jones \ 14. 'My Many Selves': A Reassessment of Katherine Mansfield's Journal Valérie Baisnée \ 15. 'Blue with Cold': Coldness in the Works of Katherine Mansfield Janka Kacáková \ 16. Katherine Mansfield's Menagerie Melinda Harvey \ Notes on Contributors \ Index