Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe ― Connections and Influences

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in Europe and her own translations of other European writers; new biographical and critical interpretations of her early 'difficult' period in Bavaria and her connections to Poland; connections with other authors both contemporary and historical; notions of identity, the self, and 'home'; and finally a reinterpretation and reassessment of her stories set in Europe. Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe aims to fill a perceived gap in the market on Mansfield studies and will be of value for students, general readers and scholars of Mansfield alike.

Janka Kascakova, Senior lecturer at the Catholic University in Ru?omberok, Slovakia, is the author of several articles and book chapters on both Katherine Mansfield and J.R.R. Tolkien. She is the co-editor of Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien (2010), Does it Really Mean That: Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous (2011) and the translator of a volume of Katherine Mansfield's stories into Slovak.

Gerri Kimber, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, UK, is co-editor of the annual book series Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-15). She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008).