Table Of ContentCelebrating Katherine Mansfield
Also by Gerri Kimber
A LITERARY MODERNIST: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story
KATHERINE MANSFIELD: The View From France
FRAMED: Essays in French Studies (co-edited with Lucy Bolton, Anne Lewis and
Michael Seabrook)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND LITERARY MODERNISM (co-edited with
Janet Wilson and Sue Reid)
Also by Janet Wilson
FLEUR ADCOCK
THE GORSE BLOOMS PALE: The Southland Stories of Dan Davin (edited)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND LITERARY MODERNISM (co-edited with
Gerri Kimber and Sue Reid)
REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL (co-edited with Cristina Sandru and
Sarah Lawson Welsh)
Celebrating Katherine
Mansfield
A Centenary Volume of Essays
Edited by
Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson
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Celebrating Katherine Mansfield : a centenary volume of essays
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1. Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923-Criticism and interpretation.
I. Kimber, Gerri. II. Wilson, janet, 1948- III.Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors
X
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson
Part I Biographical Readings and Fiction
1 Signing Off: Katherine Mansfield's Last Year 13
Vincent O'Sullivan
2 Katie and Chummie: Death in the Family 28
f. Lawrence Mitchell
3 'A Furious Bliss': Katherine Mansfield and
John Middleton Murry 1916-1918 42
Sydney Janet Kaplan
Part II Mansfield and Modernity
4 Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within 57
Elleke Boehmer
5 Leaping into the Eyes: Mansfield as a Cinematic Writer 72
Sarah Sandley
6 Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century
Echoes 84
Delia da Sousa Correa
7 'Is this Play?': Katherine Mansfield's Play Frames 99
Janna K. Stotz
Part III Psychoanalytical Readings
8 Katherine Mansfield's Uncanniness 115
Clare Hanson
9 A Trickle of Voice: Katherine Mansfield and the
Modernist Moment of Being 131
fosiane Paccaud-Huguet
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10 'Ah, What is it?-that I Heard': The Sense of Wonder in
Katherine Mansfield's Stories and Poems 144
Anne Maunie
11 Cold Brains and Birthday Cake: The Art of 'Je ne
parle pas frans:ais' 158
Anna Smith
Part IV Autobiography and Fiction
12 'Where is Katherine?': Longing and (Un)belonging in
the Works of Katherine Mansfield 175
Janet Wilson
13 Mansfield and Dickens: 'I am not Reading Dickens Idly' 189
Angela Smith
14 'Not Always Swift and Breathless': Katherine Mansfield
and the Familiar Letter 202
Anna Jackson
15 Meetings with 'the Great Ghost' 214
C. K. Stead
Select Bibliography 229
Index 233
Acknowledgements
Sydney Janet Kaplan's essay in this volume comes from a chapter of her
book Circulating Genius: fohn Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and
D. H. Lawrence published by Edinburgh University Press© Sydney Janet
Kaplan, 2010, and is reproduced here (with minor editorial changes)
with kind permission of the publishers. Thanks go to Sally Burton the
artist, and Jean Allan the owner, for permission to reproduce a detail of
the painting entitled 'Double Portrait of Katherine Mansfield' on the front
cover. The image of Katherine Mansfield's writing used to illustrate the essay
by C. K. Stead (p. 220) is reproduced by kind permission of the Alexander
Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, John Middleton Murry collec
tion, ref. no. qMS-1244.
In addition, the editors would like to thank Paula Kennedy and Ben
Doyle at Palgrave Macmillan for their generous support of this project,
Kevin Ireland for invaluable editorial assistance, and Ralph and Bella
Kimber as always, for their unending patience regarding the 'other'
woman in their lives.
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