Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook won the Modernist Studies Association Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. He is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies 21, 2011), and editor of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, and of many articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He has just completed a new ms. on emigration and Irish writing. His other current project concerns modernism, energy, and global resources. 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 AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction: Achieving BlissEnda DuffyCRITICISMThe Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’Richard Cappuccio Refrigeration, Bliss and the Modernist World Order of Imperial CultureEnda Duffy and Maurizia BoscagliThe ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’Marilyn ReizbaumSublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’Gaurav Majumdar‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer SublimeEleri Watson Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’ Marlene AndresenOf ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’Argha Kumar Banerjee A NEW STORYA Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine MansfieldMartin Griffiths‘The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe’ Katharine R. Mansfield CREATIVE WRITING Short StoryPaula Morris: ‘Mari’PoetryErica Stretton: ‘Is the air always like this?’Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas: ‘Leslie’ Jackie Davis: ‘Four Hours’ Jessica Whyte: ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’Julie Kennedy: ‘Read the World’ Kirsten Warner: ‘In a Nutshell’Maggie Rainey Smith: ‘At Katherine's Bay’Mark Pirie: ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’Melissa Browne: ‘The Young Girl’Suzanne Herschell: ‘The Open Home’ CRITICAL MISCELLANY A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine MansfieldRobin WoodwardSuch ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’Janet M. Wilson REVIEW ESSAYRhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for MeaningLee GarverNotes on ContributorsIndex