Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

A Manuscript Critical Edition

Katherine Mansfield, Todd Martin

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350096653
• eBook ISBN: 9781350096660
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Women Authors Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield's creative process.

With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings exploring the manuscript history of these stories.

The stories included are: 'Je ne parle pas francais'; 'Sun and Moon'; 'Revelations'; 'The Stranger'; 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'; 'Mr and Mrs Dove'; 'Marriage à la Mode'; 'The Voyage'; 'Six Years After'; 'The Fly'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• Abbreviations
• A Note on the Transcriptions
• Introduction—Katherine Mansfield: The “Death of the Author” and the Possibilities of Genetic Criticism
• Selected Stories
• A Note on the Manuscripts of “Je ne parle pas français”
• Transcription of Combined Rough Newberry Library MS and Turnbull Library, Notebook 14
• Transcription of Newberry Library Clean MS, Chapter I
• A Note on the Manuscript of “Revelations”
• Transcription of the Newberry Library MS
• A Note on the Manuscripts of “The Stranger”
• Parallel Transcription of Rough Newberry Library MS and Clean Newberry MS
• A Note on the Manuscript and Typescript of “Poison”
• Transcription of Newberry MS
• A Note on the Manuscript of “Non-Compounders [Daughters of the Late Colonel]”
• Transcription of Newberry Library MS, with Turnbull Library Fragment
• A Note on the Manuscript of “Mr and Mrs Dove”
• Transcription of Newberry Library MS
• A Note on the Manuscript of “Marriage à la Mode”
• Transcription of Newberry Library MS
• A Note on the Manuscript of “The Voyage”
• Transcription of Newberry Library MS
• A Note on the Manuscripts of “Six Years After”
• Parallel Transcription of Newberry Library and Turnbull Library MSS
• A Note on the Manuscript and Typescript of “The Fly”
• Transcription of Newberry Library MS
• Critical Responses
• “With a strong accent on the less”: Tracing Voices in the Textual Genetics of “Je ne parle pas français”
• The Journey from “Non-Compounders” to “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”
• “All at Sea”: Sea Journeys in “The Stranger,” “The Voyage,” and “Six Years After”
• “A Wholesale Hanging”: Katherine Mansfield’s Sphere Stories
• “What was it?”: The avant-texte and the “grinding feeling of wretchedness” in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Copyright