Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. 1. ‘Like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror’: Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence 1
6. Part I. Ambivalence
7. 2. ‘The Twilight of Language’: The Young Evelyn Waugh on ‘Catherine’ Mansfield 21
8. 3. ‘Where is she?’ Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen 35
9. Part II. Exchange
10. 4. ‘[O]ur precious art’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Gift Economy 51
11. 5. ‘The Silence is Broken’: Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Manifesto Moment’ 65
12. 6. Circles of Influence: Katherine Mansfield, S. S. Koteliansky and Russia 78
13. Part III. Identification
14. 7. ‘Worms of the Same Family’: Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim 93
15. 8. ‘Objectless Love’: The Vagabondage of Colette and Katherine Mansfield 105
16. Part IV. Imitation
17. 9. ‘God forgive me, Tchehov, for my impertinence’: Mansfield and the Art of Copying 119
18. 10. ‘[A]ctively making one feel’: Katherine Mansfield, Evolving Empathy and Intimate Influence in Virginia Woolf’s Writings of the 1920s and 1930s 137
19. Part V. Enchantment
20. 11. Mansfield eats Dickens 155
21. 12. Katherine Mansfield, Nettie Palmer and Critical Influence 168
22. 13. The Meeting of Katherine Mansfield and Eve Langley 180
23. Part VI. Legacy
24. 14. Mansfield, Shakespeare and the Unanxiety of Influence 195
25. 15. The ‘Burden’ of the Feminine: Frank Sargeson’s Encounter with Katherine Mansfield 207
26. 16. Writing from the Cellar: Revisiting the Villa Isola Bella 219
27. Notes on Contributors 233
28. Bibliography 237
29. Index 251