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During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914 1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918 20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield's creativity she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book my path is so dotted with doctors'. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost her brother, her mother, her grandmother endowing them with life in the process.
Contents
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction
CRITICISM
Towards a Vegan Future: Animal Death and the First World War in Katherine Mansfield's Fiction, Brigitte N. McCray
'Oh, those grown-ups', Angela Smith
Jacob's Wrestling with the Angel from Bible Myth to Walter Pater's and Katherine Mansfield's Stories, Maurizio Ascari
The Deadliest Game of Snooker: Katherine Mansfield's Great War Revisited, Janka Kascakova
Katherine Mansfield, 'The Cowiness of the Cow' and Medical History, Derek Ryan
Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Stanley and 'The Song of Songs', Erika Baldt
The Spanish Lady Cannot Speak: Katherine Mansfield and 'Miasmic Modernism', Jessica Whyte
Restlessness Transformed: Revisiting the Metaphor of Tuberculosis in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks and Letters, Wen-Shan Shieh
CREATIVE WRITING
Katherine Mansfield's 'Praeludium Chopins', Martin Griffiths
'At the Bay', C. K. Stead
'Waiting for Snow'John Middleton Murry (with a note by Gerri Kimber)
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
John Middleton Murry's Unfinished Second Volume of Autobiography, Charles Ferrall
REVIEW ESSAY
Katherine Mansfield, Illness, Recuperation and Re-enchantment, Rishona Zimring
Notes on ContributorsIndex
