Katherine Mansfield and Children / / ed. by Gerri Kimber, Todd Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baldt, Erika,; Griffiths, Martin,; Hoover, Michael,; Humberd, Daniel,; Jones, Kathleen,; Kascakova, Janka,; Kimber, Gerri,; Macansantos, Monica,; Mansfield, Katherine,; Marshall, Ann Herndon,; Martin, Todd,; McDonnell, Jenny,; Miao, Tracy,; Mitchell, J. Lawrence,; Nagy-Seres, Imola,; Stead, Oliver,
• HerausgeberIn: Kimber, Gerri,; Martin, Todd,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Katherine Mansfield Studies : KMS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations; 2 colour illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction ‘A kind of childlikeness’ – Katherine Mansfield and Children -- CRITICISM -- Casting ‘a haunting light’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood -- Mansfield and Murry: Two Children Holding Hands -- The Thoughtful Child: The Sentimental Origins of Katherine Mansfield’s Children -- Katherine Mansfield’s Play Aesthetics -- Katherine Mansfield’s Sleeping Boys -- Kezia a ‘ninseck’, Kezia the Bee -- ‘Real Childhood’: The Daring of Katherine Mansfield and Alice Meynell -- A NEW STORY -- ‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ by Katherine Mansfield -- ‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ -- CREATIVE WRITING -- SHORT STORY -- ‘Mr. Brill’ -- CREATIVE ESSAY -- The Life-Affirming Words of Katherine Mansfield in a Time of Pandemic -- CRITICAL MISCELLANY -- The Paper Knife – Patrick White and Katherine Mansfield -- Appearances Matter: Katherine Mansfield and the Photographic Record -- REVIEW ESSAY -- ‘A widening circle of connectedness’ in Mansfield Studies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index