Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories (Katherine Mansfield Studies)

Product Description Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield. From the Inside Flap Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfields BlissThis book celebrates the centennial of Blisss publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfields most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara.Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton.Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University and President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. From the Back Cover Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield. Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University and President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. About the Author Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook won the Modernist Studies Association Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. He is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies 21, 2011), and editor of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, and of many articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He has just completed a new ms. on emigration and Irish writing. His other current project concerns modernism, energy, and global resources. Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story. A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin's primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He is the President of the Katherine Mansfield Society. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson, and Katherine Mansfield. He is a member of the Katherine Mansfi