Katherine Mansfield and Translation

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25). A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin’s primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION, Claire Davison; I. CRITICISM; ‘Parodic Translation: Katherine Mansfield and the “Boris Petrovsky” Pseudonym’, Chris Mourant; ‘“Ginger Whiskers” and “Glad-Eyes”: Translations of Katherine Mansfield’s Stories into Slovak and Czech’, Janka Kascakova; ‘“Into Unknown Country”: Cinematicity and Intermedial Translation in Mansfield’s Fictional Journeys’, Faye Harland; ‘Unshed Tears: Meaning, Trauma and Translation’, Davide Manenti; ‘“Making a Stay in X”: Repressing Translation in “An Indiscreet Journey”’, Rachael Stanley; ‘“Nous ne suivons pas la même route”: Flaubertian Objectivity and Mansfield’s Representations of Travel’, Philip Keel Geheber; ‘Foreign Languages and Mother Tongues: From Exoticism to Cannibalism in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories’, Elisabeth Lamy-Vialle; ‘“Among Wolves” or “When in Rome”?: Translating Katherine Mansfield’, Gerri Kimber; II. CREATIVE WRITING; Poetry; Jan Kemp: ‘Côte-à-côte in Katherine Mansfield's Heart’; Riemke Ensing: ‘Another Exile Paints a Spring Portrait of Katherine Mansfield’, with a commentary by Kathleen Jones; Iain Britton: Three Sonnets from a poetical work entitled ‘K’; Short Stories; Mandy Hager: ‘Welcome to Paradise’; Parineeta Singh: ‘An Invitation to Dinner’; Aimee Gasston: ‘Beau Champ’; III. CRITICAL MISCELLANY; ‘“The Night of the Zeppelin” by Tennessee Williams’, Gerri Kimber; ‘????’, Frances Spalding; Reviews; J. Lawrence Mitchell, Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, eds., The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield Volume 3; Andrew Harrison, Anne Fernihough, Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary Modernism; Rishona Zimring, H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah: A Biography of the Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; Sarah Sandley, Maurizio Ascari, Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing; Jessica Gildersleeve, Tammy Clewell, ed., Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics; Irina Kogel, Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock, eds., Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: From Melodrama to Modernism; Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Anna Snaith, Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945, Galya Diment, Claire Davison, Translations as Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S. S. Koteliansky; Notes on Contributors