The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield

This awesomely comprehensive and research-rich handbook to Katherine Mansfield will be a go-to resource for readers for a generation and more to come, ranging from the long-term specialist to the newly hooked browser. Everything about her work is here, both the mainstream and the quirky—its musical interests and intertexts; its global, western and southern settings; its New Zealand yearnings; and her important shaping influence on the convulsion of new media, thought and forms that was modernism. Perhaps, most of all, the reader will find here wide-ranging reflections on the immense power of the short story in her ingenious hands. -- Elleke Boehmer FRSL, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield is an outstanding contribution to Katherine Mansfield studies. It is exceptionally well- structured by its editor, Todd Martin, whose introduction to the book is in itself a comprehensive and essential historical examination of the critical reception of Mansfield’s work during the latter part of the twentieth century. It provides readers with an essential grounding to help them contextualize the new critical approaches taken by the twelve notable Mansfield scholars who have written the insightful, often intriguing, essays which make up the Handbook. -- Sydney Janet Kaplan, Professor of English, University of Washington, USA
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, edited by Todd Martin, offers an incredibly comprehensive overview of the full range of themes and approaches to Mansfield’s work that currently occupy scholars. Outstandingly well researched … This wide-ranging, intelligently organized essay collection is testament to [the vibrancy of Mansfield studies]: it will provide a comprehensive introduction to Mansfield for the reader new to her work, as well as stimulating, original, well-researched scholarship for the returning specialist * The Year’s Work in English Studies *