Katherine Mansfield: New Directions

Aimée Gasston is Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK.Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor at the University of Northampton, UK. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She is editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Chair of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.

Moving between cognitive criticism and affect studies, biographical approaches and comparative readings, feminist inquiry and postcolonial re-examination, studies of literary influence and intertextual links, Katherine Mansfield: New Directions substantially expands the scope of Katherine Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century. Informed by new biographical investigations, rereading writing practices through interdisciplinary approaches, this series of cutting-edge discussions of Mansfield’s literary modernism limns a critical space in constant expansion.

• Part1: Form and force1. Ali Smith – SIGNES OF SPRING: A Letter from Katherine Mansfield2. Elleke Boehmer – Reflecting (upon) Ellipsis: Katherine Mansfield as Case-Study (University of Oxford, UK)3. Enda Duffy – Dirty Snow: Mansfield, Joyce and the Modernist Snow Globe (University of California, USA)4. Ruchi Mundeja - In-Scribing Silence: Reading How the Silences Speak in Mansfield’s Stories (University of Delhi, India)Part 2: Mansfield’s modernisms5. William Kupinse – What Plant’s in 'Prelude'?: Colonialism, Gender, and Speculative Botany (University of Puget Sound, USA)6. Chris Mourant – Katherine Mansfield and American Modernism (University of Birmingham, UK)7. Erika Baldt - ‘A god instead of a mortal’: Katherine Mansfield and the Orphic Mysteries (Rowan College of Burlington County, USA)8. Nick Hocking – ‘But the smile undid them’: Bergsonian perceptions of impermissible comedy in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Psychology’Part 3: Literary influence and life writing9.Katie Jones - ‘Something Sensational and New’: Katherine Mansfield’s Engagement with the Literary Marketplace in London, 1908-9 (University of Nottingham, UK)10. Kathleen Jones - ‘From My Life I Write to You in Your Life’: Katherine Mansfield, Philip Larkin and Yiyun Li11. Gerri Kimber - ‘An Intellectual Comradeship’: A Reassessment of the Relationship between George Bowden and Katherine Mansfield (University of Northampton, UK)Part 4: Social and domestic transactions12. Janet Wilson – Economic Women: Money and (Im)Mobility in Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield (University of Northampton, UK)13. Alex Moffett – Labour, Idleness, and Life Narrative in The Garden Party and Other Stories (Providence College, Rhode Island, USA)14. Ann Herndon Marshall - Here’s to You, Miss Moss: Katherine Mansfield’s Prostitute