About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Expanding the Horizon of Katherine Mansfield Studies
Todd Martin
Part I Katherine Mansfield at Work
2. Katherine Mansfield and Modernism
Enda Duffy (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
3. Juliet and Maata
Gerri Kimber (University of Northampton, UK)
4. Katherine Mansfield, the Magazine Writer
Jenny McDonnell (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland)
5. From The Aloe to “Prelude”
Alex Moffett (Providence College, USA)
6. The New Zealand Stories
Jane Stafford (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Part II Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries
7. Katherine Mansfield, Garsington, and Bloomsbury
Jay Dickson (Reed College, USA)
8. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Ruchi Mundeja (University of Delhi, India)
9. Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence
Andrew Harrison (University of Nottingham, UK)
10. Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Isobel Maddison (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK)
Part III Katherine Mansfield and Genre
11. Katherine Mansfield and the Short Story
Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University, UK)
12. Katherine Mansfield as Critic
Chris Mourant (University of Birmingham, UK)
13. Katherine Mansfield’s Letters and Journals
Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
14. Katherine Mansfield’s Poetry
Erika Baldt (Rowan College of Burlington County, USA)
Part IV Katherine Mansfield and the Arts
15. Katherine Mansfield’s Musical World
Claire Davison, (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France)
16. Katherine Mansfield and Post-Impressionism
Angela Smith (University of Stirling, UK)
17. Katherine Mansfield and the Cinematic
Faye Harland (Newcastle University, UK)
Part V The World of Katherine Mansfield
18. Katherine Mansfield and New Zealand
Kathleen Jones (Professional Biographer)
19. Katherine Mansfield and Empire
Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK)
20. Katherine Mansfield and the Great War
Christine Darrohn (University of Maine, Farmington, USA)
21. Katherine Mansfield and the East
Tracy Miao (Xi’an International Studies University, China)
22. Katherine Mansfield and the Russian Mystics
Galya Diment (University of Washington, USA)
23. Katherine Mansfield and France
Gerri Kimber (University of Northampton, UK)
Part VI Critical Approaches to Katherine Mansfield
24. Katherine Mansfield and Reading
Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College, USA)
25. Katherine Mansfield and Sexuality
Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
26. Katherine Mansfield and Eco-criticism
William Kupinse (University of Puget Sound, USA)
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Criticism
Aimée Gasston (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the Author :
Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University, USA, where he currently holds the Edwina Patton Chair of Arts and Sciences. He was recently awarded the Lester J. Cappon Fellowship in Documentary Editing at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. He is the Membership Secretary of the Katherine Mansfield Society and serves as co-editor of the Society’s book series, Katherine Mansfield Studies.
Review :
This awesomely comprehensive and research-rich handbook to Katherine Mansfield will be a go-to resource for readers for a generation and more to come, ranging from the long-term specialist to the newly hooked browser. Everything about her work is here, both the mainstream and the quirky—its musical interests and intertexts; its global, western and southern settings; its New Zealand yearnings; and her important shaping influence on the convulsion of new media, thought and forms that was modernism. Perhaps, most of all, the reader will find here wide-ranging reflections on the immense power of the short story in her ingenious hands.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield is an outstanding contribution to Katherine Mansfield studies. It is exceptionally well- structured by its editor, Todd Martin, whose introduction to the book is in itself a comprehensive and essential historical examination of the critical reception of Mansfield’s work during the latter part of the twentieth century. It provides readers with an essential grounding to help them contextualize the new critical approaches taken by the twelve notable Mansfield scholars who have written the insightful, often intriguing, essays which make up the Handbook.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, edited by Todd Martin, offers an incredibly comprehensive overview of the full range of themes and approaches to Mansfield’s work that currently occupy scholars. Outstandingly well researched … This wide-ranging, intelligently organized essay collection is testament to [the vibrancy of Mansfield studies]: it will provide a comprehensive introduction to Mansfield for the reader new to her work, as well as stimulating, original, well-researched scholarship for the returning specialist
