Katherine Mansfield Selected Stories - Norton Critical Edition

by Mansfield,Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780393925333
• ISBN10: 0393925331
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

With the exception of the first four stories, all were written within a period of ten years. These stories, and the letters following, reflect the urgency of a writer who knew her time was limited. All but four of the texts of the stories reprinted here are versions that Mansfield herself revised or selected. Twenty excerpts from Mansfield's correspondence address the craft of writing and her own views on her work, subjects rarely broached in her many letters. "Criticism" includes eighteen essays that collectively suggest the changing emphases in how Mansfield has been read by critics. Contributors include fellow writers Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frank O' Connor, as well as biographers Claire Tomalin and Vincent O'Sullivan, among others. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories
The Tiredness of Rosabel (1908)	3	(5)
At ``Lehmann's'' (1910)	8	(5)
Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding (1910)	13	(6)
The Swing of the Pendulum (1911)	19	(8)
The Woman at the Store (1912)	27	(9)
How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (1912)	36	(3)
Ole Underwood (1912)	39	(3)
Millie (1913)	42	(5)
Bains Turcs (1913)	47	(4)
The Little Governess (1915)	51	(11)
An Indiscreet Journey (1915)	62	(13)
The Wind Blows (1915)	75	(4)
Prelude (1917)	79	(37)
A Dill Pickle (1917)	116	(5)
Je ne Parle Pas Francais (1918)	121	(24)
Bliss (1918)	145	(10)
Psychology (1919)	155	(6)
Pictures (1919)	161	(8)
The Man without a Temperament (1920)	169	(10)
Revelations (1920)	179	(5)
The Escape (1920)	184	(5)
The Young Girl (1920)	189	(5)
The Stranger (1920)	194	(10)
Miss Brill (1920)	204	(4)
Poison (1920)	208	(5)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1920)	213	(17)
Life of Ma Parker (1920)	230	(5)
Her First Ball (1921)	235	(6)
Marriage a la Mode (1921)	241	(9)
At the Bay (1921)	250	(29)
The Voyage (1921)	279	(7)
The Garden Party (1921)	286	(12)
The Doll's House (1921)	298	(6)
The Fly (1922)	304	(5)
The Canary (1922)	309	(6)
Katherine Mansfield: From Her Letters
To Sylvia Payne (24 April 1906)	315	(1)
To Garnet Trowell (2 November 1908)	316	(1)
To Garnet Trowell (8 November 1908)	317	(1)
To John Middleton Murry (19 May 1913)	318	(1)
To John Middleton Murry (25 March 1915)	319	(1)
To John Middleton Murry (7 May 1915)	319	(1)
To Bertrand Russell (17 December 1916)	320	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (11 October 1917)	321	(2)
To John Middleton Murry (3 February 1918)	323	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (12 May 1918)	324	(1)
To John Middleton Murry (18 October 1920)	324	(2)
To John Middleton Murry (3 November 1920)	326	(1)
To John Middleton Murry (23 November 1920)	326	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (12 September 1921)	327	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (11 November 1921)	328	(1)
To William Gerhardi (21 November 1921)	329	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (5 December 1921)	329	(1)
To Dorothy Brett (26 February 1922)	330	(1)
To William Gerhardi (13 March 1922)	330	(1)
To Sarah Gertrude Millin (March 1922)	331	(6)
Criticism
The Garden Party	337	(2)
Rebecca West
The Short Story as Colour	339	(3)
Conrad Aiken
[The Feminine Voice]	342	(1)
T. S. Eliot
[Life into Art]	343	(1)
Katherine Anne Porter
[Who Are These People?]	344	(3)
V. S. Pritchett
``A Living Writer''	347	(7)
Elizabeth Bowen
``The Fly'': A Critical Exercise	354	(7)
F. W. Bateson
B. Shahevitch
[An Author in Search of a Subject]	361	(9)
Frank O'Connor
[``The Daughters of the Late Colonel'']	370	(5)
Clare Hanson
Andrew Gurr
[Dreams and Danger]	375	(4)
Claire Tomalin
[Freedom and Confinement]	379	(7)
Kate Fullbrook
[Sex, Danger, Freedom]	386	(6)
Sydney Janet Kaplan
[Violence and Power in Mansfield Stories]	392	(7)
Pamela Dunbar
[The New Zealand Stories]	399	(9)
Vincent O'Sullivan
[Form and Value in ``Je Ne Parle Pas Francais'']	408	(6)
W. H. New
[Writing the Secret Self]	414	(7)
Angela Smith
[Capture and Imagination]	421	(4)
Angela Smith
[The German Stories]	425	(4)
Linda Grant
Selected Bibliography	429