‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction: Achieving Bliss 1
7. CRITICISM
8. The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’ 13
9. Refrigeration, ‘Bliss’ and the Modernist World Order of Imperial Culture 26
10. The ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’ 45
11. Sublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’ 60
12. ‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime 74
13. Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’ 91
14. Of ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’ 105
15. A NEW STORY
16. A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine Mansfield 123
17. The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe 135
18. CREATIVE WRITING
19. SHORT STORY
20. ‘Mari’ 149
21. POETRY
22. ‘Is the Air Always Like This?’ 155
23. ‘Leslie’ 156
24. ‘Four Hours’ 157
25. ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’ 158
26. ‘Read the World’ 160
27. ‘In a Nutshell’ 160
28. ‘At Katherine’s Bay’ 163
29. ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’ 164
30. ‘The Young Girl’ 165
31. ‘The Open Home’ 165
32. CRITICAL MISCELLANY
33. A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine Mansfield 169
34. Such ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ 182
35. REVIEW ESSAY
36. Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for Meaning 203
37. Notes on Contributors 215
38. Index 220