‘Rare, rare joy’: Performing Mansfield

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. CRITICISM
7. Katherine Mansfield’s Women: ‘Ninon de Longclothes’ 9
8. ‘There was nowhere’: Literary Women and Contingent Identity in the Modernist Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and May Sinclair 25
9. Exquisite Wilds and Small Enchantments: Mansfield, Women, Nature and Art 45
10. Correspondence: Colette and Katherine Mansfield 61
11. Light and Legacy: Katherine Mansfield and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright 76
12. ‘Here is safety for us to grow’: Katherine Mansfield, Simone de Beauvoir and Love Beyond the Family 89
13. Women’s Experience of Emotion: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Taking the Veil’ and ‘A Dill Pickle 104
14. Secret Selves and Shadowy Others: Divisive Femininity in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and ‘A Cup of Tea’ 118
15. Marginalised Women in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Israel Zangwill 133
16. The Ecofeminist Consciousness of Katherine Mansfield and Xiao Hong 146
17. CREATIVE WRITING
18. CREATIVE RESPONSES
19. ‘Rare, rare joy’: Performing Mansfield 165
20. ‘Journey from the Flatlands’ 172
21. ‘Coucou’ 177
22. POETRY
23. ‘Carlotta’s Song’ 184
24. ‘When I First Met You’ 185
25. CRITICAL MISCELLANY
26. J. D. Fergusson’s Poise Revisited 189
27. REVIEW ESSAY
28. The Work (Fortunately) Never Done 195
29. Notes on Contributors 208
30. Index 212