Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her complete body of work, this is the most comprehensive volume to Mansfield scholarship available today.The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author’s work, including:New biographical insights, including into the early New Zealand yearsResponses to the historical crises: the Great War, empire and orientalismMansfield’s fiction, poetry, criticism and private writingMansfield and modernist culture – from Bloomsbury to the little magazinesMansfield and her contemporaries – Woolf, Lawrence and von ArnimMansfield and the arts – visual culture, cinema and musicThe book also includes a substantial annotated bibliography of key works of Mansfield scholarship from the last 30 years.