{"title":"Anxious Beginnings: Mental Illness, Reproduction and Nation Building in ‘Prelude’ and Prelude to Christopher","authors":"Sarah Ailwood","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores relationships between Katherine Mansfield's ‘Prelude’ (1918) and Eleanor Dark's Prelude to Christopher (1934). Mansfield's presence in Australian literary culture of the interwar period, together with Dark's knowledge of her writing, indicates that Dark was influenced, perhaps directly, by ‘Prelude’ when she wrote Prelude to Christopher. Both texts use modernist literary techniques to explore relationships between mental and physical illness and reproduction in the context of emerging feminist politics. The colonial contexts of ‘Prelude’ and Prelude to Christopher impact the treatment of modernist themes by interrogating the socially-prescribed role of woman as childbearer in the nation-building politics of the new colonial nation and its cultural, economic and scientific ideologies. Investigating links between Mansfield and Australian modernist women writers points to the possibility of a regional response to modernism.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127008284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modern Tastes in Rhythm: The Visual and Verbal Culture of Advertisements in Modernist Magazines1","authors":"A. Thacker","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the role of advertisements in the visual and verbal culture of modernist ‘little magazines’, and focuses upon Rhythm (1911–13), the magazine edited by Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. It traces how advertisements are implicated in the culture of the ‘little magazine’ as much as in commercial magazines, and indicates how Rhythm provides an interesting case-study for demonstrating how modernism engages critically with the commodification represented by the discourse of advertising. The article analyses how the visual ‘look’ of Rhythm as an avant-garde magazine, as applied in the illustrations to poems by Mansfield, also extends to the design of advertisements for commercial organisations such as the department store Heals. Rhythm thus demonstrates a dilemma over the relation between art and commercial culture that runs throughout modernism, one which is noticed most acutely in modernist magazines.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126624097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bugger the Skylarks: Lawrence and Mansfield at War. A Battle in Ten Scenes","authors":"R. Fraser","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0009","url":null,"abstract":"A ten scene drama depicting the relationship between D.H.Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield during the first world war.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125272857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J. D. Fergusson's Painting Rhythm","authors":"Angela Smith","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Anne Estelle Rice, who painted the portrait of Katherine Mansfield that appeared on the cover of the first issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies, wrote of Mansfield long after her death: ‘She smoked far too much; the box of cigarettes was rarely out of her hands’.1 J. D. Fergusson however gave up smoking for good during the time that he and Mansfield were friends as he wanted to see better and more clearly. As the cover of this issue of the journal suggests, he particularly wanted to see vibrant colour unclouded by smoke. He had moved to Paris from Edinburgh in 1907 because he found the conservatism of the Scottish art world constricting. Before he moved he was painting portraits that resembled James McNeill Whistler’s work, sensitive realistic renderings of the subject, often in full figure and using a muted palette. In Paris he was dazzled by the adventurousness he found, especially in the work of the Fauvist, Henri Matisse. The colours in Matisse’s picture Bonheur de vivre, for instance, are raw and wild, and the image has an overt and seductively erotic sensuousness. The scene is mythological, not the Garden of Eden but a vision of unregulated and partly at least homoerotic sexual pleasure. Fergusson immediately responded to the stimulus of postimpressionist radicalism and altered his palette, his conception of the picture plane and his subject. Though Fergusson is now usually identified as a Scottish Colourist, together with S. J. Peploe, G. L. Hunter and F. C. B. Cadell, his work differs significantly from theirs. In Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century he began to paint nudes, often inviting a mythological interpretation, whereas the work of the other Colourists lacks this dimension. His impetus came partly from an interest in the work of Henri Bergson which was the subject of his and Anne Estelle Rice’s first conversation with JohnMiddletonMurry, in the Cafe","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122888421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Happiness","authors":"K. Martin","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay identifies an allusion contained in a remark made by D. H. Lawrence about the similarity of Katherine Mansfield's work to that of Dickens. It traces the origin of Lawrence's allusion, arguing that Lawrence specifically links Mansfield's writing with Dickens's Christmas book The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), in which a lively, speaking kettle plays a key part in emphasising the comforts of domesticity, offering an image of well-being set against the harshness of winter. Lawrence linked Mansfield to this scene because it highlighted notions of happiness that were central to their literary relationship as explored by this article. Working from this allusion, parallels emerge in the way that both writers were preoccupied with the transience of happiness (as in a Christmas tale), but also in that they sought similar means of overcoming this transience. Echoes between Mansfield's ‘Bliss’ (1918) and Lawrence's Women in Love (1920) reveal close linguistic affinities between the two writers: each emphas...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124151509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘And he handed her an egg’: The Art of Memory in ‘Feuille d'Album’, Katherine Mansfield and Proust","authors":"Anne Mounic","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000067","url":null,"abstract":"Through a detailed analysis of Katherine Mansfield's ‘Feuille d'Album’, this essay will identify affinities between the French philosopher Henri Bergson, the writer Marcel Proust and Mansfield herself, in terms of memory and imagination, and what Proust called the ‘sense of reality’, acquired through the connection of both these faculties in the present moment. Mansfield wrote to her husband in 1922: ‘I want to be REAL’. That sense of reality is the artist's achievement in the present moment and the sense of the fullness of time thus obtained seems to belong to the realm of the impossible. A work of art nevertheless opens up the world of the possible, as suggested by the paradoxical end to ‘Feuille d'Album’, a story that can be considered as a parable of the art of writing and might therefore be placed side by side with the last act of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, where art – and especially words, music, and rhythm – creates a figure of living memory, an instance of resurrection.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132443201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Katherine Mansfieldová: The Reception of Katherine Mansfield in the Countries of Former Czechoslovakia","authors":"Janka Kaščáková","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000079","url":null,"abstract":"Katherine Mansfield's short stories have enjoyed a presence in both parts of the former Czechoslovakia since the 1930s, in the form of translations for periodicals. The first collection of her stories in book form is also from this period, although, probably for cultural and linguistic reasons, appears only in Czech, as do three subsequent collections published between the 1950s and 1970s. In terms of critical assessment, Mansfield's work has not been systematically studied. Criticism consists mainly of book reviews, prefaces to collections of her stories, dust cover blurbs and brief paragraphs introducing the translations of stories in magazines. This paper presents and analyses material gathered during research in the Czech and Slovak National Libraries.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129933443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Overview of Mansfield's Studies in Spain and a Review of Gerardo Rodríguez Salas's Hijas de la Diosa Blanca. (Oviedo: Septem, 2007) 224 pp., 37€ / £32. ISBN 9788496491311","authors":"Isabel Cuevas","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127680315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Katie Roiphe, Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles: 1910–1939 (London: Virago, 2008) 343 pp., £12.99. ISBN 9781844082728","authors":"Sarah Ailwood","doi":"10.3366/E204145010900016X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E204145010900016X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129588646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}