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List of contents
Part1: Form and force
1. Ali Smith – SIGNES OF SPRING: A Letter from Katherine Mansfield
2. Elleke Boehmer – Reflecting (upon) Ellipsis: Katherine Mansfield as Case-Study (University of Oxford, UK)
3. Enda Duffy – Dirty Snow: Mansfield, Joyce and the Modernist Snow Globe (University of California, USA)
4. Ruchi Mundeja - In-Scribing Silence: Reading How the Silences Speak in Mansfield’s Stories (University of Delhi, India)
Part 2: Mansfield’s modernisms
5. William Kupinse – What Plant’s in 'Prelude'?: Colonialism, Gender, and Speculative Botany (University of Puget Sound, USA)
6. Chris Mourant – Katherine Mansfield and American Modernism (University of Birmingham, UK)
7. Erika Baldt - ‘A god instead of a mortal’: Katherine Mansfield and the Orphic Mysteries (Rowan College of Burlington County, USA)
8. Nick Hocking – ‘But the smile undid them’: Bergsonian perceptions of impermissible comedy in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Psychology’
Part 3: Literary influence and life writing
9.Katie Jones - ‘Something Sensational and New’: Katherine Mansfield’s Engagement with the Literary Marketplace in London, 1908-9 (University of Nottingham, UK)
10. Kathleen Jones - ‘From My Life I Write to You in Your Life’: Katherine Mansfield, Philip Larkin and Yiyun Li
11. Gerri Kimber - ‘An Intellectual Comradeship’: A Reassessment of the Relationship between George Bowden and Katherine Mansfield (University of Northampton, UK)
Part 4: Social and domestic transactions
12. Janet Wilson – Economic Women: Money and (Im)Mobility in Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield (University of Northampton, UK)
13. Alex Moffett – Labour, Idleness, and Life Narrative in The Garden Party and Other Stories (Providence College, Rhode Island, USA)
14. Ann Herndon Marshall - Here’s to You, Miss Moss: Katherine Mansfield’s Prostitute
About the author
Aimée Gasston is Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK.Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor at the University of Northampton, UK. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. 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.
Summary
Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield’s work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith.
Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate the modernist short fiction writer, Katherine Mansfield. Reassessing Mansfield’s life, work and reputation in the light of new research in literary modernism the book maps new directions for future Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century. Drawing on current work from postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, affect studies, book, periodical and manuscript studies, and auto/biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art as well as new archival discoveries, this is an essential contribution to our deepening understanding of a central modernist figure.
Foreword
Leading scholars and writers including Ali Smith and Elleke Boehmer explore new directions in scholarship on the modernist short story writer Katherine Mansfield.
