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The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated
intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her
literary aesthetics placed her at a distance from the artistic
works of the group. With chapters written by leading international
scholars, Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group explores
this conflicted relationship. Bringing together biographical and
critical studies, the book examines Mansfield's relationships -
personal and literary - with such major Modernist figures as
Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Walter de la Mare as
well as the ways in which her work engaged with and reacted against
Bloomsbury. In this way the book reveals the true extent of
Mansfield's wider influence on 20th-century modernist writing.
Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful
short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as
one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism.
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her
complete body of work, this is the most comprehensive volume to
Mansfield scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to
Katherine Mansfield covers the full range of contemporary scholarly
themes and approaches to the author's work, including: * New
biographical insights, including into the early New Zealand years *
Responses to the historical crises: the Great War, empire and
orientalism * Mansfield's fiction, poetry, criticism and private
writing * Mansfield and modernist culture - from Bloomsbury to the
little magazines * Mansfield and her contemporaries - Woolf,
Lawrence and von Arnim * Mansfield and the arts - visual culture,
cinema and music The book also includes a substantial annotated
bibliography of key works of Mansfield scholarship from the last 30
years.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in
the development of the modernist short story and her writings were
a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H.
Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some
of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and
students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative
process. With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and
transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with
later revisions and the final published work. In the final section
of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings
exploring the manuscript history of these stories. A detailed
descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also
included to help researchers explore the work further. The stories
included are: ‘Je ne parle pas francais’; ‘Sun and Moon’;
‘Revelations’; ‘The Stranger’; ‘The Daughters of the Late
Colonel’; ‘Mr and Mrs Dove’; ‘Marriage à la Mode’;
‘The Voyage’; ‘Six Years After’; ‘The Fly’.
Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and
Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the
author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted
April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of Katherine
Mansfield. Recently, new research into the complex relationship
between these writers has extended our understanding of the
familial, personal and literary connections between these unlikely
friends. We know that they were an influential presence on one
another and reviewed each other's work. By bringing the work of
Mansfield and von Arnim together including on matters of artistry,
on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance this book establishes
shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge
of writing in the period. It also deepens our understanding of the
historical and literary contexts within which both of these
extraordinary authors worked.
Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book
celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new
readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing
not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent
to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the
short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered
short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It
also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by
acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by
Mansfield.
During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of
abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and
tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly
in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914
1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918 20 informed the zeitgeist
of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which
this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's
literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated
and limited Mansfield's creativity she would write to fund her
medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health,
writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much
money as I can on my next book my path is so dotted with doctors'.
As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the
increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as
Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function
compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost her
brother, her mother, her grandmother endowing them with life in the
process.
This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by
offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known
stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work
but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning
the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication
of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an
explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a
new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all
inspired by Mansfield.
The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The
Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's
place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her
generation. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the
similarities it shared with her previous collection, Bliss and
Other Stories; however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many
emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she
was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action
could not. While it contains some of Mansfield's most sophisticated
and well-loved stories, several of the stories in The Garden Party
initially appeared in the Sphere, and thus were often dismissed as
inferior. Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short
of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed their
greater complexity. The essays in this volume, by both seasoned and
newer Mansfield scholars, work to continue this conversation. The
collection also includes Mansfield-inspired short fiction, two
translations of memorial poems dedicated to Mansfield by Chinese
and French contemporaries with accompanying notes, and a recently
re-discovered book review by Mansfield. In addition, Sydney Janet
Kaplan provides a reflection on her personal meeting with
Christopher Isherwood, a writer heavily influenced by the life and
work of Mansfield
Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield
and childrenWhat Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet
of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her
personal and creative life. It is present in her mature fiction,
where some of her most well-known and accomplished stories, such as
'Prelude' and 'At the Bay', have children as protagonists. It is
present in her early poetry, which includes a collection of poems
for children intended for publication and it is also present in her
juvenilia, where many of the stories she wrote from an early age
for school magazines and other publications, feature children. Even
as an adult, Mansfield's love of the miniature, her delight in
children in general, her fascination with dolls, all feature in her
personal writing. Her relationship with John Middleton Murry was
characterised by their mutual descriptions of themselves as little
children fighting against a corrupt world. Including a newly
discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an
explanatory essay, this volume engages each of these aspects of the
child in Mansfield's work and life.
What Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of
Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her
personal and creative life. It is present in her mature fiction,
where some of her most well-known and accomplished stories, such as
'Prelude' and 'At the Bay', have children as protagonists. It is
present in her early poetry, which includes a collection of poems
for children intended for publication and it is also present in her
juvenilia, where many of the stories she wrote from an early age
for school magazines and other publications, feature children. Even
as an adult, Mansfield's love of the miniature, her delight in
children in general, her fascination with dolls, all feature in her
personal writing. Her relationship with John Middleton Murry was
characterised by their mutual descriptions of themselves as little
children fighting against a corrupt world. Including a newly
discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an
explanatory essay, this volume engages each of these aspects of the
child in Mansfield's work and life.
Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and
Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the
author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted
April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of Katherine
Mansfield. Recently, new research into the complex relationship
between these writers has extended our understanding of the
familial, personal and literary connections between these unlikely
friends. We know that they were an influential presence on one
another and reviewed each other's work. By bringing the work of
Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of
artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book
establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend
our knowledge of writing in the period. It also deepens our
understanding of the historical and literary contexts within which
both of these extraordinary authors worked.
New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and
writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf 'I love to think
of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to
find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to be
scrupulously truthful - and to give you the freedom of the city
without any reserves at all.' Katherine Mansfield's ardent overture
to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual
admiration and fascination shot through with wary
misunderstandings, rivalry and envy. These comparative essays
explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and
shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary
relationship - absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical,
competitive, sometimes foundering in 'quicksands' - and its
profound impact on their creative imaginations.
A Christian tale of spiritual warfare. Two urban families come
together seemingly by accident and find themselves in the midst of
a diabolical spiritual plot. The story shows what the author
understands to be everyday spiritual warfare that every person
faces on a daily basis, whether they are Christian or not.
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