Full Description
New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by MansfieldThe last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the similarities it shared with her previous collection, Bliss and Other Stories; however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action could not. While it contains some of Mansfield's most sophisticated and well-loved stories, several of the stories in The Garden Party initially appeared in the Sphere, and thus were often dismissed as inferior. Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed their greater complexity. The essays in this volume, by both seasoned and newer Mansfield scholars, work to continue this conversation. The collection also includes Mansfield-inspired short fiction, two translations of memorial poems dedicated to Mansfield by Chinese and French contemporaries with accompanying notes, and a recently re-discovered book review by Mansfield. In addition, Sydney Janet Kaplan provides a reflection on her personal meeting with Christopher Isherwood, a writer heavily influenced by the life and work of Mansfield.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations
IntroductionTodd Martin
CRITICISM
Redefining 'Photographic Realism' in the Short Fiction of Katherine MansfieldDaisy Birch
Knowing What We Feel about Katherine Mansfield: Sentimentality and Expression in 'The Garden Party'Jay Dickson
Dickens, Death and Mary Ann: Katherine Mansfield's 'Life of Ma Parker'Martin Griffiths
'Passion in Movement': Katherine Mansfield - Gesture, Motion, and Dance Richard Cappuccio
Katherine Mansfield's 'Marriage à la Mode': 'far too facile'?Anna Kwiatkowska
The Quest for Autonomy Amid Shifting Gender Expectations and Relationships in Katherine Mansfield's Short StoriesCalvin Goh
'Forgive my Hat': Clothing as a Condition of Narratability in The Garden Party and Other StoriesSamantha Dewally
Katherine Mansfield's Desperate Housewives and Metonymic DesireSovay Hansen
'If only one had time to look at these flowers long enough, time to get over the sense of novelty and strangeness': The Political Language of Flowers in Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party and Other StoriesSharon Gordon
CREATIVE WRITING Short Story
'How Loud the Birds'Ailsa Cox
'The Marquee'Paula McGrath
'Endless Sea'Bronwyn Calder
Poem
Twenty Immortal Minutes: A Poem by Xu ZhimoStuart Lyons
A Poem by Philippe ChabaneixGerri Kimber
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
Returning to 'Kathy': Christopher Isherwood's Katherine Mansfield FascinationSydney Janet Kaplan
Katherine Mansfield's Daily Herald Review of Joseph Conrad's The RescueJohn G. Peters
REVIEW ESSAY
Redrawing Katherine Mansfield's Critical HorizonsElyse Blankley
Notes on ContributorsIndex
