"Possible, Possible, Possible": Katherine Mansfield Studies in the Twenty-first Century

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Abstract:Katherine Mansfield: New Directions, in Bloomsbury's Historicizing Modernism series devoted to the use of primary sources and an emphasis on genetic criticism in the study of modernist literature, presents an array of new "possibilities" in Katherine Mansfield studies. Organized into four sections, the fourteen chapters in this collection pivot on form and force, Mansfield's modernisms, literary influence and life writing, and social and domestic transactions. Together they provide a series of glimpses of how Mansfield studies are being fertilized by cognitive criticism, affect studies, auto/biographical and comparative reading approaches, feminist and postcolonial literary scholarship, and research on literary networks and reception. The volume lights up new directions of Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century.