Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction 1
7. CRITICISM
8. Redefining ‘Photographic Realism’ in the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield 9
9. Knowing What We Feel about Katherine Mansfield: Sentimentality and Expression in ‘The Garden Party’ 25
10. Dickens, Death and Mary Ann: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Life of Ma Parker’ 38
11. ‘Passion in Movement’: Katherine Mansfield – Gesture, Motion and Dance 53
12. Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Marriage à la Mode’: ‘far too facile’? 69
13. The Quest for Autonomy amid Shifting Gender Expectations and Relationships in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories 87
14. ‘Forgive my Hat’: Clothing as a Condition of Narratability in The Garden Party and Other Stories 100
15. Katherine Mansfield’s Desperate Housewives and Metonymic Desire 114
16. ‘If only one had time to look at these flowers long enough, time to get over the sense of novelty and strangeness’: The Political Language of Flowers in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories 127
17. CREATIVE WRITING
18. SHORT STORIES
19. ‘How Loud the Birds’ 143
20. ‘The Marquee’ 153
21. ‘Endless Sea’ 159
22. POEMS
23. Twenty Immortal Minutes: A Poem by Xu Zhimo 163
24. A Poem by Philippe Chabaneix 167
25. CRITICAL MISCELLANY
26. Returning to ‘Kathy’: Christopher Isherwood’s Katherine Mansfield Fascination 173
27. Katherine Mansfield’s Daily Herald Review of Joseph Conrad’s The Rescue 186
28. REVIEW ESSAY
29. Redrawing Katherine Mansfield’s Critical Horizons 193
30. Notes on Contributors 206
31. Index 210