Katherine Mansfield and Germany

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Katherine Mansfield and Germany focuses on an under-researched yet crucially important aspect of Mansfield's life and art, her encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society.

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Introduction: Katherine Mansfield's German encounters

Janet M. Wilson and Tracy Miao

Part One

Wellington to Wörishofen: Locations and intersections

1. A "long[ing] for German": Katherine Mansfield's German encounters

Natalie Perman

2. From Rotorua toWörishofen: Katherine Mansfield's spa experiences

John Horrocks

3. Mansfield in Wörishofen in 1909: literary encounters and explorations

Martin Griffiths

Part Two

In a German Pension: A "modernist" response to Germany

4. "On the grounds of this perversion": Mansfield's "fallen" figures

Eliana Rozinov

5. Constructing the modern woman: Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension stories

Janet M. Wilson

6. Katherine Mansfield and Sekundenstil

Michael Hollington

7. Antipodean modernism and the "Germanic" narrative space: Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension and Christina Stead's The Salzburg Tales

Yingjie M. Cheng

Part Three

Music, poetry, and fairy tale: German cultural influences

8. "Strange medley of sound": Resonances of Heine in the writings of Katherine Mansfield

   Claire Davison

9. Katherine Mansfield's Germany: "These pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!"

Delia Da Souza Correa

10. Turning white pebbles into bread crumbs: Katherine Mansfield's fairytale collaging and morphing

Tracy Miao

11. "Where had she come from?" The fairy-tale and biblical undertones in Katherine Mansfield's "A Cup of Tea"

Janka Kaskacova

Part Four: Reframing literary history and Mansfield's reception

12. "A thousand premeditated invasions": Katherine Mansfield, Germany, and the New Age

Jenny McDonnell

13. Katherine Mansfield's German reception in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic

    Monika Sobotta