Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism

Gerri Kimber is Associate Lecturer at The Open University, UK. She is co-editor of the literary journal Katherine Mansfield Studies. Susan Reid is Associate Editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies and Reviews Editor for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She is editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Chair of EACLALS. She has published the co-edited collection, Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium (2009), Fleur Adcock (2007) and the edition, The Gorse Blooms Pale: The Southland Stories of Dan Davin (2007).

• 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 Emigre 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 Belen Lopez Perez; 11. 'My Insides Are All Twisted Up': When Distortion and the Grotesque became 'the same job' in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Gerardo Rodriguez Salas with Isabel Maria Andres 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 Valerie Baisnee; 15. 'Blue with Cold': Coldness in the Works of Katherine Mansfield Janka Kascakova; 16. Katherine Mansfield's Menagerie Melinda Harvey; Notes on Contributors; Index.

‘[This book] reads Mansfield's work through diverse theoretical lenses and in tandem with a range of contemporaneous movements; [it] features essays that make good use of the life writings recently made available to critics.' —Woolf Studies Annual