Overview

The appeal of Katherine Mansfield's work knows no geographical boundaries. All of her writings remain in print, she is widely read, taught, and anthologized throughout the world, and her work has been translated into diverse languages. The essays in this volume chart the response to Mansfield's work across time and place. Included are the earliest reviews of her writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as pieces exemplifying modern critical approaches to her work. Born in New Zealand in 1888, Katherine Mansfield left Wellington when she was nineteen to begin a career as a writer in London. In the years that followed, she received critical acclaim and counted among her friends T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, and Aldous Huxley. Since her untimely death from tuberculosis in 1923, her writings have drawn increasingly varied critical attention. Through a collection of essays and reviews, this volume traces the critical response to Mansfield's writings. The volume includes the earliest reviews of her work in 1911 through the most recent examinations of her fiction. Though the pieces included are written in English, some essays discuss her links with Europe and with French, German, and Asian critics. An introductory essay and chronology briefly overview the critical reception of her work, and a selected bibliography lists bibliographical, biographical, and critical studies.

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Author:   Janice Pilditch ,  Cameron Northouse ,  Cameron Northouse
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Volume:   No. 21.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780313290640

ISBN 10:   0313290644
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 January 1996
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction by Jan Pilditch The Early Years Anonymous review of In a German Pension J.W.N. S(ullivan), ""The Story-Writing Genius"" Anonymous review of Bliss and Other Stories Malcolm Cowley, ""Page Dr Blum!"" Rebecca West, ""The Garden Party"" Conrad Aiken, ""The Short Story as Colour"" Raymond Mortimer, The Dove's Nest and Other Stories Edmund Blunden, ""A Prose-Writers Poems"" Virginia Woolf, ""A Terribly Sensitive Mind"" Towards Assessment Edward Wagenknecht, ""Katherine Mansfield"" V.S. Pritchett, ""Toy Balloons"" Elisabeth Schneider, ""Katherine Mansfield and Chekhov"" David Daiches, ""Katherine Mansfield"" Arthur Sewell, From ""Katherine Mansfield, A Critical Essay"" Katherine Anne Porter, ""The Art of Katherine Mansfield"" Anonymous review of Katherine Mansfield's Stories John Middleton Murry, ""Katherine Mansfield"" Sam Hynes, ""Katherine Mansfield: The Defeat of the Personal"" Elizabeth Bowen, ""A Living Writer"" New Approaches Ian A. Gordon, ""The Editing of Katherine Mansfield's Journal and Scrapbook"" F.W. Bateson and B. Shahevitch, ""Katherine Mansfield's 'The Fly'"" Brigid Brophy, ""Katherine Mansfield's Self-Depiction"" Christiane Mortelier, ""The Genesis and Development of the Katherine Mansfield Legend in France"" Eileen Baldeshwiler, ""Katherine Mansfield's Theory of Fiction"" Consolidation Margaret Scott, ""The Extant Manuscripts of Katherine Mansfield"" T.O. Beachcroft, ""Katherine Mansfield's Encounter with Theocritus"" Ruth Elvish Mantz, ""Katherine Mansfield: Tormentor and Tormented"" Vincent O'Sullivan, ""The Magnetic Chain: Notes and Approaches to K.M."" C.K. Stead, ""Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Fiction"" Jean E. Stone, From Publications in Australia 1907-09 Jeffrey Meyers, ""Katherine Mansfield's 'To Stanislaw Wyspianski'"" Cherry Hankin, ""Fantasy and the Sense of an Ending in the Work of Katherine Mansfield"" One Hundred Years On Antony Alpers, From The Life of Katherine Mansfield Susan Gubar, From: ""The Birth of the Artist as Heroine: (RE)production, the Künstlerroman, Tradition, and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield"" Andrew Gurr, ""The Question of Perspectives in Commonwealth Literature"" Claire Tomalin, ""What is going to happen to us all?"" Ken Arvidson, ""Dancing on the Hand of God: Katherine Mansfield's Religious Sensibility"" Judith Dale, ""Performing Katherine Mansfield"" Shifen Gong, ""Katherine Mansfield in China"" Wihi Ihimaera, ""Dear Katherine Mansfield"" Bibliography Index"

Reviews

Pilditch's volume is the first sustained effort to evaluate critical reaction to Mansfield's work. Pilditch has...done a superb job....[A] fine, overdue contribution to Mansfield scholarship and a beautifully turned out book to boot. -Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography

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JAN PILDITCH is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

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