Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial 1
6. Criticism
7. Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal 15
8. Mansfield as (Post)colonial-Modernist: Rewriting the Contract with Death 29
9. Colonialism and the Need for Impurity: Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Garden Party’ and Postcolonial Feeling 45
10. ‘How Katherine Mansfield Was Kidnapped’: A (Post)colonial Family Romance 63
11. ‘Unmasking’ the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension 76
12. Workmanship and Wildness: Katherine Mansfield on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence 87
13. Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction 102
14. Literatures of Expatriation and the Colonial Mansfield 116
15. Creative Writing
16. Poetry 127
17. Poetry
18. Names and Places Poem 127
19. Excavating the Bones 128
20. Nightmare 129
21. L’Incubo 129
22. Katherine Mansfield’s Mirror 130
23. ‘This Nettle, Danger’ 131
24. Poem for Jeanne’s Birthday 132
25. Short Story
26. Waiting for La Petite Anglaise 133
27. Reports
28. The Lawrences, Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Ricordi’ Postcard 149
29. ‘A Little Episode’: The Forgotten Typescripts of Katherine Mansfield, 1908–11 154
30. The 2012 Alexander Turnbull Library Mansfield/Murry Acquisition 167
31. Two French Books Belonging to Katherine Mansfield 176
32. Editing the New Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, eds 181
33. Names Painting – Katherine Mansfield 186
34. Reviews
35. Frank O’Connor, The Lonely Voice 193
36. Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, eds, The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898–1915 (Volume 1) and The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield 1916–1922 (Volume 2) 196
37. Martin Hipsky, Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 199
38. Alex Calder, The Settler’s Plot: How Stories Take Place in New Zealand, and Doreen D’Cruz and John C. Ross, The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction 201
39. Galya Diment, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky 203
40. Notes on Contributors 206