List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction: Achieving BlissEnda Duffy CRITICISM The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’Richard Cappuccio Refrigeration, Bliss and the Modernist World Order of Imperial CultureEnda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli The ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’Marilyn Reizbaum Sublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’Gaurav Majumdar ‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer SublimeEleri Watson Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’ Marlene Andresen Of ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’Argha Kumar Banerjee A NEW STORY A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine MansfieldMartin Griffiths ‘The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe’ Katharine R. Mansfield CREATIVE WRITING Short StoryPaula Morris: ‘Mari’ PoetryErica Stretton: ‘Is the air always like this?’Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas: ‘Leslie’ Jackie Davis: ‘Four Hours’ Jessica Whyte: ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’Julie Kennedy: ‘Read the World’ Kirsten Warner: ‘In a Nutshell’Maggie Rainey Smith: ‘At Katherine's Bay’Mark Pirie: ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’Melissa Browne: ‘The Young Girl’Suzanne Herschell: ‘The Open Home’ CRITICAL MISCELLANY A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine MansfieldRobin Woodward Such ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’Janet M. Wilson REVIEW ESSAY Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for MeaningLee Garver Notes on ContributorsIndex