Katherine Mansfield’s French Lives

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and specialises in trans-European and transmedial modernisms. She is the author of Translation as Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S. S. Koteliansky (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Dr Gerri Kimber is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton and Chair of the international Katherine Mansfield Society. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the Series Editor of the 4 vol. Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16).

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Mansfield in FranceSydney Janet KaplanMansfield and Murry’s Sojourns in France: A Bi-National QuarrelLouise EdensorUn profession de foi pour toujours: Katherine Mansfield and Beatrice Hastings in FranceGalya DimentKatherine Mansfield’s Russian HealersGilles FreyssinetFrancis Carco: The Poet of ‘Paname’Part Two: Literary Representations of FranceW. Todd MartinA Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘A Little Episode’Janka Kascakova‘For all Parisians are more than half–’: Stereotypes and Physical Love in Katherine Mansfield’s WritingGina WiskerLooking for a Resting Place: Travel and Defamiliarisation in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Epilogue I: Pension Seguin’Chris Mourant‘Alors, Je Pars’: Katherine Mansfield and the New Age, 1915-17Part Three: Mansfield and French LiteratureJanet WilsonKatherine Mansfield and Anima Mundi: France and the Tradition of Nature PersonifiedAnne MounicKatherine Mansfield, Proust and Baudelaire: On the Questionable Issue of Literary InfluenceMirosława KubasiewiczArt Collectors and Artists: Love in the Works of Marcel Proust and Katherine MansfieldGerri KimberDeux Femmes ‘Vagabondes’: Katherine Mansfield and ColettePart Four: Intercultural Approaches: The Arts and Languages of FranceTracy MiaoArtistic Coalescence and Synthetic Performance: Katherine Mansfield and her ‘Rhythms’Rishona ZimringRethinking Mansfield Through Gaudier-Brzeska: Monumentality and IntimacyJosiane Paccaud-Huguet‘Dames seules’ Lost in Translation: The French Language in Katherine Mansfield’s StoriesAnne-Marie Smith-Di BiasioWriting the Undiscovered Country: Katherine Mansfield, Childhood and FranceNotes on ContributorsIndex