Katherine Mansfield’s Sleeping Boys

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction ‘A kind of childlikeness’ – Katherine Mansfield and Children 1
7. CRITICISM
8. Casting ‘a haunting light’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood 15
9. Mansfield and Murry: Two Children Holding Hands 33
10. The Thoughtful Child: The Sentimental Origins of Katherine Mansfield’s Children 48
11. Katherine Mansfield’s Play Aesthetics 66
12. Katherine Mansfield’s Sleeping Boys 82
13. Kezia a ‘ninseck’, Kezia the Bee 97
14. ‘Real Childhood’: The Daring of Katherine Mansfield and Alice Meynell 108
15. A NEW STORY
16. ‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ by Katherine Mansfield 125
17. ‘The Chorus Girl and the Tariff’ 137
18. CREATIVE WRITING
19. SHORT STORY
20. ‘Mr. Brill’ 143
21. CREATIVE ESSAY
22. The Life-Affirming Words of Katherine Mansfield in a Time of Pandemic 152
23. CRITICAL MISCELLANY
24. The Paper Knife – Patrick White and Katherine Mansfield 163
25. Appearances Matter: Katherine Mansfield and the Photographic Record 178
26. REVIEW ESSAY
27. ‘A widening circle of connectedness’ in Mansfield Studies 191
28. Notes on Contributors 208
29. Index 211