Katherine Mansfield and The Garden Party and Other Stories

## New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by Mansfield The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, __The Garden Party and Other Stories__ would solidify Katherine Mansfield’s place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the similarities it shared with her previous collection, __Bliss and Other Stories__; however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action could not. While it contains some of Mansfield’s most sophisticated and well-loved stories, several of the stories in __The Garden Party__ initially appeared in the __Sphere__, and thus were often dismissed as inferior. Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed their greater complexity. The essays in this volume, by both seasoned and newer Mansfield scholars, work to continue this conversation. The collection also includes Mansfield-inspired short fiction, two translations of memorial poems dedicated to Mansfield by Chinese and French contemporaries with accompanying notes, and a recently re-discovered book review by Mansfield. In addition, Sydney Janet Kaplan provides a reflection on her personal meeting with Christopher Isherwood, a writer heavily influenced by the life and work of Mansfield. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction CRITICISM Redefining ‘Photographic Realism’ in the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield Knowing What We Feel about Katherine Mansfield: Sentimentality and Expression in ‘The Garden Party’ Dickens, Death and Mary Ann: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Life of Ma Parker’ ‘Passion in Movement’: Katherine Mansfield – Gesture, Motion and Dance Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Marriage à la Mode’: ‘far too facile’? The Quest for Autonomy amid Shifting Gender Expectations and Relationships in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories ‘Forgive my Hat’: Clothing as a Condition of Narratability in The Garden Party and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield’s Desperate Housewives and Metonymic Desire ‘If only one had time to look at these flowers long enough, time to get over the sense of novelty and strangeness’: The Political Language of Flowers in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories CREATIVE WRITING SHORT STORIES ‘How Loud the Birds’ ‘The Marquee’ ‘Endless Sea’ POEMS Twenty Immortal Minutes: A Poem by Xu Zhimo A Poem by Philippe Chabaneix CRITICAL MISCELLANY Returning to ‘Kathy’: Christopher Isherwood’s Katherine Mansfield Fascination Katherine Mansfield’s Daily Herald Review of Joseph Conrad’s The Rescue REVIEW ESSAY Redrawing Katherine Mansfield’s Critical Horizons Notes on Contributors Index