The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield

Subjects:

• Literature » English Literature
• Women's Studies » Women in Literature & the Arts

Reviews:

• Pilditch's volume is the first sustained effort to evaluate critical reaction to Mansfield's work. Pilditch has...done a superb job....[A] fine, overdue contribution to Mansfield scholarship and a beautifully turned out book to boot.
  —Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology
• Introduction by Jan Pilditch
• The Early Years
• Anonymous review of In a German Pension
• J.W.N. S(ullivan), "The Story-Writing Genius"
• Anonymous review of Bliss and Other Stories
• Malcolm Cowley, "Page Dr Blum!"
• Rebecca West, "The Garden Party"
• Conrad Aiken, "The Short Story as Colour"
• Raymond Mortimer, The Dove's Nest and Other Stories
• Edmund Blunden, "A Prose-Writers Poems"
• Virginia Woolf, "A Terribly Sensitive Mind"
• Towards Assessment
• Edward Wagenknecht, "Katherine Mansfield"
• V.S. Pritchett, "Toy Balloons"
• Elisabeth Schneider, "Katherine Mansfield and Chekhov"
• David Daiches, "Katherine Mansfield"
• Arthur Sewell, From "Katherine Mansfield, A Critical Essay"
• Katherine Anne Porter, "The Art of Katherine Mansfield"
• Anonymous review of Katherine Mansfield's Stories
• John Middleton Murry, "Katherine Mansfield"
• Sam Hynes, "Katherine Mansfield: The Defeat of the Personal"
• Elizabeth Bowen, "A Living Writer"
• New Approaches
• Ian A. Gordon, "The Editing of Katherine Mansfield's Journal and Scrapbook"
• F.W. Bateson and B. Shahevitch, "Katherine Mansfield's 'The Fly'"
• Brigid Brophy, "Katherine Mansfield's Self-Depiction"
• Christiane Mortelier, "The Genesis and Development of the Katherine Mansfield Legend in France"
• Eileen Baldeshwiler, "Katherine Mansfield's Theory of Fiction"
• Consolidation
• Margaret Scott, "The Extant Manuscripts of Katherine Mansfield"
• T.O. Beachcroft, "Katherine Mansfield's Encounter with Theocritus"
• Ruth Elvish Mantz, "Katherine Mansfield: Tormentor and Tormented"
• Vincent O'Sullivan, "The Magnetic Chain: Notes and Approaches to K.M."
• C.K. Stead, "Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Fiction"
• Jean E. Stone, From Publications in Australia 1907-09
• Jeffrey Meyers, "Katherine Mansfield's 'To Stanislaw Wyspianski'"
• Cherry Hankin, "Fantasy and the Sense of an Ending in the Work of Katherine Mansfield"
• One Hundred Years On
• Antony Alpers, From The Life of Katherine Mansfield
• Susan Gubar, From: "The Birth of the Artist as Heroine: (RE)production, the Künstlerroman, Tradition, and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield"
• Andrew Gurr, "The Question of Perspectives in Commonwealth Literature"
• Claire Tomalin, "What is going to happen to us all?"
• Ken Arvidson, "Dancing on the Hand of God: Katherine Mansfield's Religious Sensibility"
• Judith Dale, "Performing Katherine Mansfield"
• Shifen Gong, "Katherine Mansfield in China"
• Wihi Ihimaera, "Dear Katherine Mansfield"
• Bibliography
• Index