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Author: Janet M. Wilson ,
Tracy Miao
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.700kg
ISBN: 9781032494197
ISBN 10: 1032494190
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 June 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Katherine Mansfield was not her ‘real’ name, but in Germany she chose to have another. What was she doing there, in disguise in a little spa town, married to one man but pregnant to another, submitting herself to the hosings, the ‘overbody wash’, the barefoot walking and vegetarian diet, observing the locals with a wickedly comic yet accurate and essentially charitable eye, and writing brilliant stories about them which she would come to dismiss, wrongly many believe, as ‘juvenile’. There has always been so much mystery about this early period in the life of one destined to ‘alter for good and all our notion of what goes to make a story’ (Elizabethe Bowen), to influence the writing and elicit the envy of Virginia Woolf, to help define by example what is meant by the term ‘literary Modernism’, and to cement herself for ever into the literary consciousness of her homeland, New Zealand. It is to Worishofen her mother brings the young Katherine in 1909, leaving her there to deal with her predicament alone, and returning home to New Zealand to strike her unmanageable daughter out of her will. There more than a hundred years later a small iron statue of Katherine sits reading beside a pond in a woodsy park, a town square bears her name, and a collocation of international scholars gathers to discuss and read papers about the mysteries of her sojourn ‘in a German pension’. The present book publishes their deliberations."" --C.K. Stead, ONZ, CBE, FRSL, Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland ""This elegant and timely volume brings into focus Mansfield’s creative process as it emerged through crucial encounters, influences, and exchanges, from her earliest engagement with 19th century German music and poetry to her legacy in the German Democratic Republic. Katherine Mansfield and Germany contributes new understandings of modernism’s locations and its cultural formations. The essays and introduction are written with inspiring liveliness, sophistication and clarity, making this volume a pleasure to read and learn from."" --Rishona Zimring, Professor of English, Lewis & Clark College
Author Information
Janet M. Wilson is professor emeritus of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of Australasia, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. From 2010-2020 she was Vice-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Her most recent publications are “‘Being at sea’: Sea Journeys in ‘The Stranger,’ ‘The Voyage,’ and ‘Six Years After’”, in Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: A Manuscript Critical Edition, edited by Todd Martin (2023), and “Broadcasting the Stories of Katherine Mansfield: The BBC Written Archive Centre”, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, edited by Jamie Callison et al (2024). Tracy Miao is Associate Professor at Xi’an International Studies University in China. She was the winner of Katherine Mansfield Society’s 2020 Essay Prize, and the winning essay “Casting a ‘haunting light’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood” was published in Katherine Mansfield Studies Vol.13 (2021). Her publications include “Katherine Mansfield and the East” in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield (2020), and “Waves and ‘moment[s] of suspension’: Katherine Mansfield’s Painterly and Kinetic Language in Fiction” in Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches (2022).
