Celebrating Katherine Mansfield A Centenary Volume of Essays

by Wilson, Janet; Kimber, Gerri

• ISBN13: 9780230277731
• ISBN10: 023027773X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Gerri Kimber is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University. She is Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008) and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008). She is co-editor of the following volumes: Framed! Essays in French Studies (2007) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011). Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, and in 2010-11 Research Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is also Chair of EACLALS, Vice-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Recent publications include Fleur Adcock (2007), the edition The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories (2007), and the co-edited volumes Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium (2010) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Biographical Readings and Fiction
Signing Off: Katherine Mansfield's Last Year	p. 13
Katie and Chummie: Death in the Family	p. 28
'A Furious Bliss': Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry 1916-1918	p. 42
Mansfield and Modernity
Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within	p. 57
Leaping into the Eyes: Mansfield as a Cinematic Writer	p. 72
Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century Echoes	p. 84
'Is this Play?': Katherine Mansfield's Play Frames	p. 99
Psychoanalytical Readings
Katherine Mansfield's Uncanniness	p. 115
A Trickle of Voice: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Moment of Being	p. 131
'Ah, What is it? - that I Heard': The Sense of Wonder in Katherine Mansfield's Stories and Poems	p. 144
Cold Brains and Birthday Cake: The Art of 'Je ne parle pas français'	p. 158
Autobiography and Fiction
'Where is Katherine?': Longing and (Un)belonging in the Works of Katherine Mansfield	p. 175
Mansfield and Dickens: 'I am not Reading Dickens Idly'	p. 189
'Not Always Swift and Breathless': Katherine Mansfield and the Familiar Letter	p. 202
Meetings with 'the Great Ghost'	p. 214
Select Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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