Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Criticism
7. Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ 11
8. Katherine Mansfield and Vitalist Psychology 23
9. A Raft in the Sea of Loneliness: Katherine Mansfield’s Discovery of Cosmic Anatomy 38
10. Mansfield’s Psychology of the Emotions 56
11. Feeling ‘Like a Work-girl’: Class, Intimacy and Alienation in ‘The Garden Party’ 68
12. Me or I? The Search for the Self in the Early Writings of Katherine Mansfield 82
13. ‘Jigging away into nothingness’: Knowledge, Language and Feminine Jouissance in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Psychology’ 100
14. ‘For the life of him he could not remember’: Post-war Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Fly’ 113
15. Creative Writing
16. Short Story
17. ‘Isn’t It’ 127
18. Poetry
19. ‘The Portrait’ 137
20. ‘Fever Dream’ 138
21. ‘Silver Dream’ 138
22. Creative Non-fiction
23. ‘Katherine Mansfield, in the Archive and Hereafter’ 141
24. Critical Miscellany
25. Poise 151
26. Poise by J. D. Fergusson: A Rediscovered Portrait of Katherine Mansfield? 157
27. Patriarchal Pink: Gender Signification in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Little Governess’ 165
28. Apples and Pears: Symbolism and Influence in Daphne du Maurier’s ‘The Apple Tree’ and Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ 172
29. Review Essay
30. ‘The Thing Needed’: Katherine Mansfield, Psychology and Relationships 189
31. Notes on Contributors 203
32. Index 206