Illness, gender, and writing : the case of Katherine Mansfield /

Katherine Mansfield is remembered for writing brilliant short stories that helped to initiate the modernist period in British fiction, and for the fact that her life - lived at a feverish pace on the fringes of Bloomsbury during the First World War - ended after a prolonged battle with pulmonary dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burgan, Mary
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Subjects:	Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923 > Criticism and interpretation. Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923 > Health. Feminism and literature > New Zealand > History > 20th century. Women and literature > New Zealand > History > 20th century. Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Health and hygiene. Women authors > Health and hygiene. Psychoanalysis and literature. Authorship > Sex differences. Human body in literature. Sex role in literature. Women authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Health and hygiene. Psychoanalytic interpretation. Gender identity.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1. "'Ah! Ah! Ah!' called the grandmother": The Deaths of Children
Ch. 2. "They discuss only the food": Body Images
Ch. 3. "Your lovely pear tree!": The Evasions of the Closet
Ch. 4. "Fatal
so fatal!": Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Gonorrhea
Ch. 5. "Lift my head, Katy, I can't breathe": Hysteria, Mourning, and Rebirthing the Brother
Ch. 6. "Je ne parle pas francais": Tuberculosis and the Modalities of Perception
Ch. 7. "I prevented you from living at all": The Gender of Care
Conclusion: Spes Phthisica and the Lyric.