Overview

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.

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Author:   Professor Todd Martin (Huntington University, USA) ,  Professor Todd Martin (Huntington University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350229808

ISBN 10:   1350229806
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   29 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

Reviews

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. -- Elleke Boehmer FRSL, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK 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. -- Sydney Janet Kaplan, Professor of English, University of Washington, USA

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. -- Elleke Boehmer FRSL, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK 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. -- Sydney Janet Kaplan, Professor of English, University of Washington, USA 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 * The Year’s Work in English Studies *

Author Information

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.

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