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New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
'I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to be scrupulously truthful - and to give you the freedom of the city without any reserves at all.'
Katherine Mansfield's ardent overture to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual admiration and fascination shot through with wary misunderstandings, rivalry and envy. These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship - absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical, competitive, sometimes foundering in 'quicksands' - and its profound impact on their creative imaginations.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Thinking Sideways through One's Sisters
Christine Froula
CRITICISM
Powers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Maud Ellmann
Together and Apart
Maria DiBattista
Seated between 'Geniuses': Conrad Aiken's Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Sydney Janet Kaplan
Katherine's SecretsChristine Froula
A Conversation Set to Flowers: Beyond the Origins of Kew Gardens
Karina Jakubowicz
'roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife': Hermeneutics of the Modern Female Face in Woolf and Mansfield
Halyna ChumakThe Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf, and Lawrence
Cheryl HindrichsDangerous Reading in Mansfield's Stories and Woolf's 'The Fisherman and His Wife'
Brian Richardson
CREATIVE WRITING
Talk
Ali Smith: Getting Virginia Woolf's Goat
Play
Barbara Egel: The Point of 'Slater's Pins': An Introduction
Barbara Egel: Virginia Woolf's 'Moments of Being: "Slater's Pins Have No Points"': A Dramatic Adaptation
Poems
Jackie Jones: 'Katherine Mansfield's Heirlooms'Maggie Rainey-Smith: 'How too weird'
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
'Not the kind to die': Katherine Mansfield and the Unquiet Ghost of 'little brother'J. Lawrence Mitchell
REVIEW ESSAY
'Which of my many [...] hundreds of selves?' Extending Mansfield's Posthumous Literary ReputationClaire Drewery
Notes on Contributors
Index
