Katherine Mansfield and Psychology

Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story.

This volume explores the multiple ways in which Mansfield's fiction resonates with the landscapes opened up by both 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.
Clare Hanson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Southampton. Her current research is in literature and science; recent books include A Cultural History of Pregnancy (2004) and Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain (2012).

Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She devised and is Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16).

Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University where he teaches twentieth-century British and American Literature. He is the Membership Secretary of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies.

Cover Image: J. D. Fergusson, Poise, 1916. 76.2 x 71.1 cm, oil on canvas. Private Collection. Image courtesy of The Richard Green Gallery, London © The Fergusson Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council.

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Introduction, Clare Hanson; Interior Matters: Secrecy and Hunger in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss", Polly Dickson; Katherine Mansfield and Vitalist Psychology, Clare Hanson; A Raft in the Sea of Loneliness: Katherine Mansfield's Discovery of Cosmic Anatomy, Maurizio Ascari; Mansfield's Psychology of the Emotions, Meghan Hammond; Feeling "Like a Work-girl": Class, Intimacy, and Alienation in "The Garden Party", Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze; Me or I? The Search for the Self in the Early Writings of Katherine Mansfield, Louise Edensor; "Jigging away into nothingness": Knowledge, Language, and Feminine Jouissance in "Bliss" and "Psychology", Allan Pero; "For the life of him he could not remember": Post-War Memory, Mourning and Masculinity Crisis in Katherine Mansfield's "The Fly", Avishek Parui; Isn't It, Paula Morris; The Portrait, Nina Powles; Fever Dream, Nina Powles; Silver Dream, Nina Powles; Katherine Mansfield, in the Archive and Hereafter, Eve Lacey; Poise, Angela Smith; Poise by John Duncan Fergusson: A rediscovered portrait of Katherine Mansfield?, Rachel Boyd; Patriarchal Pink: Gender Signification in Katherine Mansfield's "The Little Governess", Bronwen Fetters; Apples and Pears: Symbolism and Influence in Daphne du Maurier's "The Apple Tree" and Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss", Setara Pracha; "The Thing Needed": Katherine Mansfield, Psychology and Relationships, Todd Martin; Notes on Contributors.