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Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

Gasston, Aimée Kimber Gerri Martin Todd
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399527422
Publisert
2025-08-01
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
Gasston, Aimée
Kimber Gerri
Martin Todd

Om bidragsyterne

Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer. 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.

Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

Gasston, Aimée Kimber Gerri Martin Todd
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
Gasston, Aimée Kimber Gerri Martin Todd
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
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During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914 1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918 20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield's creativity she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book my path is so dotted with doctors'. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost her brother, her mother, her grandmother endowing them with life in the process.
Les mer
A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield on the theme of illness and death
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction CRITICISM Towards a Vegan Future: Animal Death and the First World War in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction, Brigitte N. McCray ‘Oh, those grown-ups’, Angela Smith Jacob’s Wrestling with the Angel from Bible Myth to Walter Pater’s and Katherine Mansfield’s Stories, Maurizio Ascari The Deadliest Game of Snooker: Katherine Mansfield’s Great War Revisited, Janka Kascakova Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Cowiness of the Cow’ and Medical History, Derek Ryan Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Stanley and ‘The Song of Songs’, Erika Baldt The Spanish Lady Cannot Speak: Katherine Mansfield and ‘Miasmic Modernism’, Jessica Whyte Restlessness Transformed: Revisiting the Metaphor of Tuberculosis in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks and Letters, Wen-Shan Shieh CREATIVE WRITING Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Praeludium Chopins’, Martin Griffiths ‘At the Bay’, C. K. Stead ‘Waiting for Snow’John Middleton Murry (with a note by Gerri Kimber) CRITICAL MISCELLANY John Middleton Murry’s Unfinished Second Volume of Autobiography, Charles Ferrall REVIEW ESSAY Katherine Mansfield, Illness, Recuperation and Re-enchantment, Rishona Zimring Notes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
A unique collection of essays by Mansfield scholars on the theme of London

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During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914 1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918 20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield's creativity she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book my path is so dotted with doctors'. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost her brother, her mother, her grandmother endowing them with life in the process.
Les mer
A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield on the theme of illness and death
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction CRITICISM Towards a Vegan Future: Animal Death and the First World War in Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction, Brigitte N. McCray ‘Oh, those grown-ups’, Angela Smith Jacob’s Wrestling with the Angel from Bible Myth to Walter Pater’s and Katherine Mansfield’s Stories, Maurizio Ascari The Deadliest Game of Snooker: Katherine Mansfield’s Great War Revisited, Janka Kascakova Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Cowiness of the Cow’ and Medical History, Derek Ryan Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Stanley and ‘The Song of Songs’, Erika Baldt The Spanish Lady Cannot Speak: Katherine Mansfield and ‘Miasmic Modernism’, Jessica Whyte Restlessness Transformed: Revisiting the Metaphor of Tuberculosis in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks and Letters, Wen-Shan Shieh CREATIVE WRITING Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Praeludium Chopins’, Martin Griffiths ‘At the Bay’, C. K. Stead ‘Waiting for Snow’John Middleton Murry (with a note by Gerri Kimber) CRITICAL MISCELLANY John Middleton Murry’s Unfinished Second Volume of Autobiography, Charles Ferrall REVIEW ESSAY Katherine Mansfield, Illness, Recuperation and Re-enchantment, Rishona Zimring Notes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
A unique collection of essays by Mansfield scholars on the theme of London

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399527422
Publisert
2025-08-01
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
Gasston, Aimée
Kimber Gerri
Martin Todd

Om bidragsyterne

Aimée Gasston is author of Modernist Short Fiction and Things (2021). She is a public servant and short story writer. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer. 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.

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