Katherine Mansfield and Psychology

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. Clare Hanson Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Southampton. Her first book was on Katherine Mansfield, followed by a chapter on Mansfield in Short Stories and Short Fictions (1985) and an edition of Mansfield’s critical writings (1987). Her current research is in literature and science, recent books including A Cultural History of Pregnancy (2004) and Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain (2012). This volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies brings together her interests in Mansfield and the history of science.

• Introduction, Clare Hanson; Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”, Polly Dickson; Katherine Mansfield and Vitalist Psychology, Clare Hanson; A Raft in the Sea of Loneliness: Katherine Mansfield’s Discovery of Cosmic Anatomy, Maurizio Ascari; Mansfield’s Psychology of the Emotions, Meghan Hammond; Feeling “Like a Work-girl”: Class, Intimacy, and Alienation in “The Garden Party”, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze; Me or I? The Search for the Self in the Early Writings of Katherine Mansfield, Louise Edensor; “Jigging away into nothingness”: Knowledge, Language, and Feminine Jouissance in “Bliss” and “Psychology”, Allan Pero; “For the life of him he could not remember”: Post-War Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”, Avishek Parui; Isn’t It, Paula Morris; The Portrait, Nina Powles; Fever Dream, Nina Powles; Silver Dream, Nina Powles; Katherine Mansfield, in the Archive and Hereafter, Eve Lacey; Poise, Angela Smith; Poise by John Duncan Fergusson: A rediscovered portrait of Katherine Mansfield?, Rachel Boyd; Patriarchal Pink: Gender Signification in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Little Governess”, Bronwen Fetters; Apples and Pears: Symbolism and Influence in Daphne du Maurier’s “The Apple Tree” and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”, Setara Pracha; “The Thing Needed”: Katherine Mansfield, Psychology and Relationships, Todd Martin; Notes on Contributors.