{"product_id":"katherine-mansfield-illness-and-death-paperback","title":"Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAimée Gasston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGerri Kimber\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTodd Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914-1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918-20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield's creativity - she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book - my path is so dotted with doctors'. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost - her brother, her mother, her grandmother - endowing them with life in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[headline]A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield on the theme of illness and death During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914-1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918-20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield's literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield's creativity - she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: 'The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book - my path is so dotted with doctors'. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost - her brother, her mother, her grandmother - endowing them with life in the process. [editor bios]Aimée Gasston is author of \u003ci\u003eModernist Short Fiction and Things\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and co-editor, with Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, of \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield: New Directions\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, UK and a professional writer and book reviewer. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAimée Gasston is author of \u003ci\u003eModernist Short Fiction and Things\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and co-editor, with Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, of \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield: New Directions\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and the author of \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield: The View from France\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin's primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. 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 the editor of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eKatherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53127143457075,"sku":"9781399527422","price":49.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/yhn-xS4Yis9781399527422.webp?v=1773297780","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/katherine-mansfield-illness-and-death-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}