Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her complete body of work this is the most comprehensive volume to Mansfield scholarship available today.<br/><br/><i>The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield</i> covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work including: <br/><br/>- New biographical insights including into the early New Zealand years<br/>- Responses to the historical crises: the Great War empire and orientalism<br/>- Mansfield's fiction poetry criticism and private writing<br/>- Mansfield and modernist culture - from Bloomsbury to the little magazines<br/>- Mansfield and her contemporaries - Woolf Lawrence and von Arnim<br/>- Mansfield and the arts - visual culture cinema and music<br/><br/> The book also includes a substantial annotated bibliography of key works of Mansfield scholarship from the last 30 years.