This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.

This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.

Introduction PART I: RECEPTION 1. An 'utterly concrete and yet impalpable' Art: The Early Reception of Katherine Mansfield in Italy (1922-1952); Maurizio Ascari 2. Katherine Mansfield's Early Translations and Reception in Hungary; Nóra Séllei, 3. 'My dear, incomparable, priceless, Kate?ina Mansfieldová' – The Reception and Translations of Katherine Mansfield in (the former) Czechoslovakia; Janka Kascakova, PART II. POLAND AND GERMAN 4. 'That Pole outside our door': Floryan Sobieniowski and Katherine Mansfield; Gerri Kimber 5. Katherine Mansfield and Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski: Meeting Points; Miros?awa Kubasiewicz 6. Katherine Mansfield's Germany: 'these pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!'; Delia da Sousa Correa, PART III. CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER AUTHORS 7. 'Liaisons continentales': Katherine Mansfield, S.S. Koteliansky and the Art of Modernist Translation; Claire Davison 8. 'There is always the other side, always': Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's Travellersin Europe; Angela Smith, 9. The Beauchamp Connection; Jennifer Walker PART IV. IDENTITY, 'THE SELF' AND 'HOME' 10. 'How can one look the part and not be the part?': National Identity in Katherine Mansfield's 'An Indiscreet Journey', 'Je ne parle pas français', and 'Miss Brill'; Erika Baldt 11. 'Strange flower, half opened': Katherine Mansfield and the Flowering of 'the Self'; Kathryn Simpson 12. The 'dream of roots and the mirage of the journey': Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield; Patricia Moran PART V. REASSESSING THE FICTION 13. Katherine Mansfield's Stories 1909-1914: The Child and the 'Childish'; Janet Wilson 14. Katherine Mansfield and the Fictions of Continental Europe; C.K. Stead Bibliography Index