Katherine Mansfield and Psychology

W. Todd Martin

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Edited by Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton
W. Todd Martin, University of Huntington, Indiana, USA.

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: May 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781474417556

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest

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Explores the multiple ways in which Mansfield's fiction resonates with the landscapes opened up by psychology and psychoanalysis.

In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors read Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new perspectives on affect in her work. While these essays trace strands within the intellectual milieu in which Mansfield came of age, others explore the intricate interplay between Mansfield's fiction and Freudian theory, seeing her work as emblematic of the uncanny doubling of modernist literature and psychoanalysis.

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New readings of Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James, Théodule Ribot and Henri Bergson
New perspectives on the representation of affect and emotion in Mansfield's fiction
The essays open up novel ways of thinking about fiction of unrivalled psychological complexity
Mansfield's work is shown to be emblematic of the uncanny doubling of modernist literature and psychoanalysis

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Miscellaneous frontmatter
pp xi-xi

Frontispiece
pp xii-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

CRITICISM
pp 9-10

Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield's ‘Bliss’
pp 11-22

Katherine Mansfield and Vitalist Psychology
pp 23-37

A Raft in the Sea of Loneliness: Katherine Mansfield's Discovery of Cosmic Anatomy
pp 38-55

Mansfield's Psychology of the Emotions
pp 56-67

Feeling ‘Like a Work-girl’: Class, Intimacy and Alienation in ‘The Garden Party’
pp 68-81

Me or I? The Search for the Self in the Early Writings of Katherine Mansfield
pp 82-99

‘Jigging away into nothingness’: Knowledge, Language and Feminine Jouissance in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Psychology’
pp 100-112

‘For the life of him he could not remember’: Post-war Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield's ‘The Fly’
pp 113-124

CREATIVE WRITING
pp 125-126

Short Story
pp 127-136

Poetry
pp 137-140

Creative Non-fiction
pp 141-148

CRITICAL MISCELLANY
pp 149-150

Poise
pp 151-156

Poise by J. D. Fergusson: A Rediscovered Portrait of Katherine Mansfield?
pp 157-164

Patriarchal Pink: Gender Signification in Katherine Mansfield's ‘The Little Governess’
pp 165-171

Apples and Pears: Symbolism and Influence in Daphne du Maurier's ‘The Apple Tree’ and Katherine Mansfield's ‘Bliss’
pp 172-186

REVIEW ESSAY
pp 187-188

‘The Thing Needed’: Katherine Mansfield, Psychology and Relationships
pp 189-202

Notes on Contributors
pp 203-205

Index
pp 206-211

Join the Katherine Mansfield Society
pp 212-212

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