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Katherine Mansfield Studies

Katherine Mansfield's Men

Edited by Erika Baldt and Gerri Kimber

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£90.00

About this book

A unique collection of essays on the theme of Katherine Mansfield’s Men

  • Explores new avenues of research into this important topic
  • Offers new assessments of Mansfield's personal relationships with influential male figures as well as of her work and its reception

Comprising cutting-edge essays by Mansfield specialists, a diverse range of creative writing, and a review essay, this volume explores how Katherine Mansfield forged an identity as a woman and a writer in relation to the men in her life. Following on from the last volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies, with its exploration of Mansfield’s relationships with and depictions of women, Katherine Mansfield’s Men examines her experiences with male mentors, contemporaries and family members, and, in terms of her fiction, continues to unpack the gendered power imbalances that Gerri Kimber identified in her introduction to Katherine Mansfield’s Women.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Erika Baldt

CRITICISM
Katherine Mansfield’s Vicarious Decadence: Arthur Symons, Artifice and Performance
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Male Childhood Trauma, Emotional Dissociation and Misogyny in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘A Married Man’s Story’
Andrew Harrison
‘Nothing Happens Suddenly’: Mansfield, A. R. Orage and the Esoteric
John Wood
Katherine Mansfield and Harold Beauchamp
Kathleen Jones
‘These half-people are very queer’: Dandies in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield
Martin Griffiths
The Dead Shall Be Raised: John Middleton Murry, Sentimentality and the Cult of Katherine Mansfield
Jay Dickson
‘A fellow workman’: Katherine Mansfield, Richard Murry and the Craft of Making a Book
Daisy Birch
Friendship in the Shadow: Medical Holism and Healing in the Writings of Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence
Wen-Shan Shieh
Katherine Mansfield, Anton Chekhov and the ‘embodied mind’: A Psycho-Cognitive Analysis of Intertextuality
Letizia Dolcini
Erico Verissimo: Translator and Silencer of Katherine Mansfield in Brazil
Katherine Funke

CREATIVE WRITING
Meeting Mansfield in London
Jia Qiong
Mansfield and Chekhov: An Elegy
Elsa Braekkan Payne

Poetry
FOOTSTEPS:
‘Sanremo, Hotel Bellevue’
‘Ospedaletti’
‘Menton 1’
‘Menton 2’
‘Bandol 1’
‘Bandol 2’
Eleonora Tarabella
‘Dispatches from Byron Villas’
Orion Foote
‘Miss Brill’
Riemke Ensing

CRITICAL MISCELLANY
The Impossible Place: Katherine Mansfield’s Imagination of Death and the Infinite
Maurizio Ascari
The Man Without a Temperament
John Wood

REVIEW ESSAY
Writing Lives
Alex Moffett

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the contributors

Erika Baldt

Erika Baldt is Professor of English at Rowan College at Burlington County in New Jersey. She teaches composition and literature and co-edits Katherine Mansfield Studies.

Gerri Kimber

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).

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