Celebrating Katherine Mansfield

A Centenary Volume of Essays

  • Gerri Kimber
  • Janet Wilson
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Gerri Kimber, Janet Wilson
      Pages 1-10

  3. Biographical Readings and Fiction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
      PDF
    2. Signing Off: Katherine Mansfield’s Last Year
      Vincent O’Sullivan
      Pages 13-27
    3. Katie and Chummie: Death in the Family
      J. Lawrence Mitchell
      Pages 28-41
    4. ‘A Furious Bliss’: Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry 1916–1918
      Sydney Janet Kaplan
      Pages 42-54

  4. Mansfield and Modernity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 55-55
      PDF
    2. Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within
      Elleke Boehmer
      Pages 57-71
    3. Leaping into the Eyes: Mansfield as a Cinematic Writer
      Sarah Sandley
      Pages 72-83
    4. Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century Echoes
      Delia da Sousa Correa
      Pages 84-98
    5. ‘Is this Play?’: Katherine Mansfield’s Play Frames
      Janna K. Stotz
      Pages 99-112

  5. Psychoanalytical Readings

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 113-113
      PDF
    2. Katherine Mansfield’s Uncanniness
      Clare Hanson
      Pages 115-130
    3. A Trickle of Voice: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Moment of Being
      Josiane Paccaud-Huguet
      Pages 131-143
    4. ‘Ah, What is it? — that I Heard’: The Sense of Wonder in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories and Poems
      Anne Mounic
      Pages 144-157
    5. Cold Brains and Birthday Cake: The Art of ‘Je ne parle pas français’
      Anna Smith
      Pages 158-171

  6. Autobiography and Fiction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 173-173
      PDF
    2. ‘Where is Katherine?’: Longing and (Un)belonging in the Works of Katherine Mansfield
      Janet Wilson
      Pages 175-188
    3. Mansfield and Dickens: ‘I am not Reading Dickens Idly’
      Angela Smith
      Pages 189-201
    4. ‘Not Always Swift and Breathless’: Katherine Mansfield and the Familiar Letter
      Anna Jackson
      Pages 202-213

About this book

Introduction

A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity.

Keywords

Charles Dickens fiction Modernism poem

Editors and affiliations

  • Gerri Kimber
    • 1
  • Janet Wilson
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.The Open UniversityUK
  2. 2.University of NorthamptonUK
  3. 3.Birkbeck, University of LondonUK

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