Full Description
Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and childrenWhat Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and creative life. It is present in her mature fiction, where some of her most well-known and accomplished stories, such as 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay', have children as protagonists. It is present in her early poetry, which includes a collection of poems for children intended for publication and it is also present in her juvenilia, where many of the stories she wrote from an early age for school magazines and other publications, feature children. Even as an adult, Mansfield's love of the miniature, her delight in children in general, her fascination with dolls, all feature in her personal writing. Her relationship with John Middleton Murry was characterised by their mutual descriptions of themselves as little children fighting against a corrupt world.
Including a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay, this volume engages each of these aspects of the child in Mansfield's work and life.
Contents
List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsAbbreviations
Introduction: 'A kind of childlikeness' - Katherine Mansfield and Children - Gerri Kimber
CRITICISM
Casting 'a haunting light': Katherine Mansfield's Modernist Vision of Childhood - Tracy Miao
Mansfield and Murry: Two Children Holding Hands - Kathleen Jones
The Thoughtful Child: The Sentimental Origins of Katherine Mansfield's Children - Todd Martin
Katherine Mansfield's Play Aesthetics - Imola Nagy-Seres
Katherine Mansfield's Sleeping Boys - Erika Baldt
Kezia a 'ninseck', Kezia the Bee - Janka Kascakova
'Real Childhood': The Daring of Katherine Mansfield and Alice Meynell - Ann Herndon Marshall
A NEW STORY
'The Chorus Girl and the Tariff' by Katherine Mansfield - Martin Griffiths
'The Chorus Girl and the Tariff' - Katherine Mansfield
CREATIVE WRITING
Short Story
'Mr. Brill' - Michael Hoover & Daniel Humberd
Creative Essay
The Life-Affirming Words of Katherine Mansfield in a Time of Pandemic - Monica Macansantos
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
The Paper Knife - Patrick White and Katherine Mansfield - Oliver Stead
Appearances Matter: Katherine Mansfield and the Photographic Record - J. Lawrence Mitchell
REVIEW ESSAY
'A widening circle of connectedness' in Mansfield studies - Jenny McDonnell
Notes on ContributorsIndex
