Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture

Provides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield's engagement with and relation to early twentieth—century periodical culture. Foregrounds the original material contexts in which Mansfield produced the majority of her work, emphasising a dialogic or 'conversational' model for modernism. Interrogates Mansfield's ambivalent self—positioning within English literary circles as a 'colonial—metropolitan modernist' and 'outsider'. Integrates ideas of the recent 'transnational turn' ...