Katherine Mansfield's women / edited by Aimée Gasston and Gerri Kimber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gasston, Aimée, editor.

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Series:

Katherine Mansfield studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 230 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Katherine Mansfield’s astute eye for power imbalances, including those that are gendered, is apparent across her fiction. Her working life was also fraught with the types of material needs set out by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, published after Mansfield’s death in 1929. Although the young Mansfield decided she ‘could not be a suffragette’ (in a letter of 17 September 1908 to Garnet Trowell), her work often addresses social injustices with portrayals of characters who are hemmed in by circumstance and reaching toward a sense of personal freedom and authenticity. This volume comprises a number of essays by Mansfield specialists on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield’s Women’, in addition to a diverse range of creative writing and a reassessment of J. D. Fergusson’s enigmatic portrait of a woman, titled Poise. By looking at the place of women in both her personal writings and fiction, it explores the textual and cultural aspects of Katherine Mansfield and the female experience in all its contexts"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Katherine Mansfield’s women : ‘Ninon de Longclothes’ / John Wood

‘There was nowhere’ : literary women and contingent identity in the modernist fiction of Katherine Mansfield and May Sinclair / Claire Drewery

Exquisite wilds and small enchantments : Mansfield, women, nature and art / Rishona Zimring

Correspondence : Colette and Katherine Mansfield / Chris Mourant

Light and legacy : Katherine Mansfield and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright / Erika Baldt

‘Here is safety for us to grow’ : Katherine Mansfield, Simone de Beauvoir and love beyond the family / Luca Pinelli

Women’s experience of emotion : Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Taking the Veil’ and ‘A Dill Pickle’ / Gwenda Koo

Secret selves and shadowy others : divisive femininity in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and ‘A Cup of Tea’ / Anna Hoovler

Marginalised women in the fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Israel Zangwill / Martin Griffiths

The ecofeminist consciousness of Katherine Mansfield and Xiao Hong / Qiong Jia

‘Rare, rare joy’ : performing Mansfield / Amelia McBride Baker

‘Journey from the Flatlands’ / Michaela Anchan

‘Coucou’ / Eden Carter Wood

‘Carlotta’s song’ / Orion Foote

‘When I first met you’ / Marcella Fratta

J.D. Fergusson’s poise revisited / John Wood

The work (fortunately) never done / Janka Kascakova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 15, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Katherine Mansfield's women

ISBN:

9781399550895

1399550896

9781399550888

1399550888

9781399550901

139955090X

OCLC:

1515323332

Publisher Number:

CIPO000252935

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license