Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.
Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University and President of the Katherine Mansfield Society.

Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook won the Modernist Studies Association Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. He is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies 21, 2011), and editor of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, and of many articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He has just completed a new ms. on emigration and Irish writing. His other current project concerns modernism, energy, and global resources. Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story. A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin's primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He is the President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson, and Katherine Mansfield. He is a member of the Katherine Mansfield Society and currently serves as the Membership Secretary. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Achieving Bliss Enda Duffy
CRITICISM
The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in 'The Man Without a Temperament' Richard Cappuccio
Refrigeration, Bliss and the Modernist World Order of Imperial Culture Enda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli
The 'Little Savage from New Zealand' in 'Bliss' Marilyn Reizbaum
Sublimity and Mansfield's 'Subjective Correlatives' in 'Bliss' Gaurav Majumdar
'We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more': Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime Eleri Watson
Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield's Child Protagonists in 'Prelude' and 'Sun and Moon' Marlene Andresen
Of 'Trust' and 'Mistrust': Reading the Mind of a Predator in 'The Little Governess' Argha Kumar Banerjee A NEW STORY
A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine Mansfield Martin Griffiths
'The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe' Katharine R. Mansfield
CREATIVE WRITING
Short Story Paula Morris: 'Mari'
Poetry Erica Stretton: 'Is the air always like this?' Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas: 'Leslie' Jackie Davis: 'Four Hours' Jessica Whyte: 'The Ox' and 'Bertha' Julie Kennedy: 'Read the World' Kirsten Warner: 'In a Nutshell' Maggie Rainey Smith: 'At Katherine's Bay' Mark Pirie: 'Your Secret Life' and 'On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield' Melissa Browne: 'The Young Girl' Suzanne Herschell: 'The Open Home'
CRITICAL MISCELLANY
A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer's Sculpted Portraits of Katherine Mansfield Robin Woodward
Such 'rich unlawful gold': Mansfield's Semiotic Manoeuvres in 'An Indiscreet Journey' Janet M. Wilson
REVIEW ESSAY
Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for Meaning Lee Garver
Notes on Contributors Index