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Celebrating 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 palgrave macmillan * Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Gerri Kimber & Janet Wilson 2011 All chapters © contributors 2011 Softcoiter reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-27773-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-32565-8 ISBN 978-0-230-30722-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230307223 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data / Celebrating Katherine Mansfield : a centenary volume of essays edited by Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson. p.cm. Includes index. 1. Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923-Criticism and interpretation. I. Kimber, Gerri. II. Wilson, janet, 1948- III.Title. PR9639.3.M258Z589 2011 823'.912-dc22 2011005249 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 To Kevin, Ralph and Bella This page intentionally left blank 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 vii viii Contents 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. ix
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