Janet M. Wilson is professor emeritus of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of Australasia, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. From 2010-2020 she was Vice-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Her most recent publications are "'Being at sea': Sea Journeys in 'The Stranger,' 'The Voyage,' and 'Six Years After'", in Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: A Manuscript Critical Edition, edited by Todd Martin (2023), and "Broadcasting the Stories of Katherine Mansfield: The BBC Written Archive Centre", in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, edited by Jamie Callison et al (2024).

Tracy Miao is Associate Professor at Xi'an International Studies University in China. She was the winner of Katherine Mansfield Society's 2020 Essay Prize, and the winning essay "Casting a 'haunting light': Katherine Mansfield's Modernist Vision of Childhood" was published in Katherine Mansfield Studies Vol.13 (2021). Her publications include "Katherine Mansfield and the East" in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield (2020), and "Waves and 'moment[s] of suspension': Katherine Mansfield's Painterly and Kinetic Language in Fiction" in Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches (2022).

Introduction: Katherine Mansfield's German encounters

Janet M. Wilson and Tracy Miao

Part One

Wellington to Wörishofen: Locations and intersections

1. A "long[ing] for German": Katherine Mansfield's German encounters

Natalie Perman

2. From Rotorua toWörishofen: Katherine Mansfield's spa experiences

John Horrocks

3. Mansfield in Wörishofen in 1909: literary encounters and explorations

Martin Griffiths

Part Two

In a German Pension: A "modernist" response to Germany

4. "On the grounds of this perversion": Mansfield's "fallen" figures

Eliana Rozinov

5. Constructing the modern woman: Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension stories

Janet M. Wilson

6. Katherine Mansfield and Sekundenstil

Michael Hollington

7. Antipodean modernism and the "Germanic" narrative space: Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension and Christina Stead's The Salzburg Tales

Yingjie M. Cheng

Part Three

Music, poetry, and fairy tale: German cultural influences

8. "Strange medley of sound": Resonances of Heine in the writings of Katherine Mansfield

Claire Davison

9. Katherine Mansfield's Germany: "These pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!"

Delia da Sousa Correa

10. Turning white pebbles into bread crumbs: Katherine Mansfield's fairytale collaging and morphing

Tracy Miao

11. "Where had she come from?" The fairy-tale and biblical undertones in Katherine Mansfield's "A Cup of Tea"

Janka Kascakova

Part Four: Reframing literary history and Mansfield's reception

12. "A thousand premeditated invasions": Katherine Mansfield, Germany, and the New Age

Jenny McDonnell

13. Katherine Mansfield's German reception in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic

Monika Sobotta