Katherine Mansfield and World War One

Katherine Mansfield and World War One Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 6 Attracting the interest of scholars of modernism and readers of Mansfield alike, Katherine Mansfield Studies offers fresh critical insights and new work by distinguished writers. Like the reclamation of women's war writings that we have already seen in relation to Virginia Woolf and others, Mansfield's literary response to the key political event of her time is fundamental to our understanding of her developing writerly style. It is in her responses to the war that we find a 'political Mansfield', and the articles in this volume provide us with a greater appreciation of Mansfield in her socio-historical context. In offering new readings of Mansfield's explicit and implicit war stories, the contributions to this volume refine and extend our knowledge of particular stories and their genealogy. They illuminate the specific and more general influences of the war on Mansfield's evolving technique and, jointly, they reveal the importance of the war on her literary language, as well as for her own particular brand of modernism. This volume helps develop our ideas of what constitute war writings and, in so doing, expands the scope of Mansfield scholarship and the field of First World War studies. Gerri Kimber is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton. She is Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society, and Series Editor of the four volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Todd Martin is a Professor of English at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, USA. Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University. Her research centres on connections between literature and music in the nineteenthcentury and modernist periods. Isobel Maddison is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, where she is a College Lecturer and the Director of Studies in English. Alice Kelly recently completed her PhD in First World War literature by women at the University of Cambridge. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Yale University.