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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. 'Like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror': Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence -- Part I. Ambivalence -- 2. 'The Twilight of Language': The Young Evelyn Waugh on 'Catherine' Mansfield -- 3. 'Where is she?' Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen -- Part II. Exchange -- 4. '[O]ur precious art': Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Gift Economy -- 5. 'The Silence is Broken': Katherine Mansfield and the 'Manifesto Moment' -- 6. Circles of Influence: Katherine Mansfield, S. S. Koteliansky and Russia -- Part III. Identification -- 7. 'Worms of the Same Family': Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim -- 8. 'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage of Colette and Katherine Mansfield -- Part IV. Imitation -- 9. 'God forgive me, Tchehov, for my impertinence': Mansfield and the Art of Copying -- 10. '[A]ctively making one feel': Katherine Mansfield, Evolving Empathy and Intimate Influence in Virginia Woolf's Writings of the 1920s and 1930s -- Part V. Enchantment -- 11. Mansfield eats Dickens -- 12. Katherine Mansfield, Nettie Palmer and Critical Influence -- 13. The Meeting of Katherine Mansfield and Eve Langley -- Part VI. Legacy -- 14. Mansfield, Shakespeare and the Unanxiety of Influence -- 15. The 'Burden' of the Feminine: Frank Sargeson's Encounter with Katherine Mansfield -- 16. Writing from the Cellar: Revisiting the Villa Isola Bella -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index Provides new reflections on literary influence using Katherine Mansfield as a case studyKatherine Mansfield and Literary Influence identifies Mansfield's involvement in six modes of literary influence - Ambivalence, Exchange, Identification, Imitation, Enchantment and Legacy. In so doing, it revisits key issues in Mansfield studies, including her relationships with Virginia Woolf, John Middleton Murry and S. S. Koteliansky, as well as the famous plagiarism case regarding Anton Chekhov. It also charts new territories for exploration, expanding the terrain of Mansfield's influence to include writers as diverse as Colette, Evelyn Waugh, Nettie Palmer, Eve Langley and Frank Sargeson.Key FeaturesExtends upon models of literary influence that are oriented around the ideas of anxiety and coteriesEngages with and develops areas of scholarly inquiry investigating modernism as the product of social and intellectual networksOffers new interpretations of Mansfield's relationships with writers with whom she is often associated, such as D H Lawrence, Anton Chekhov and Virginia WoolfTraces new connections between Mansfield's work and the work of writers not previously linked to Mansfield, such as Evelyn Waugh, Colette and Nettie Palmer
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