'The beautifully organised essays combine in fascinating ways to suggest new theoretical approaches to the question of Katherine Mansfield's impact on twentieth-century fiction. Well-grounded in both critical theory and literary history, these essays complicate older models of influence study and reveal unexpected interconnections between Mansfield and other writers.' Sydney Janet Kaplan, University of Washington 'The editors offer a refreshing new look at the anxiety, or lack of it, of influence. Bonny Cassidy writes, influence is "a bushfire: it jumps and lands". Contributors show how Mansfield absorbed her eclectic reading and how writers as diverse as Evelyn Waugh and Nettie Palmer responded to the stimulus of her stories.' Angela Smith, University of Stirling Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence seeks to understand influence, a powerful yet mysterious and undertheorised impetus for artistic production, by exploring Katherine Mansfield's wide net of literary associations. Mansfield's case proves that influence is careless of chronologies, spatial limits, artistic movements and cultural differences. Expanding upon theories of influence that focus on anxiety and coteries, this book demonstrates that it is as often unconscious as it is conscious, and can register as satire, yearning, copying, homage and resentment. This book maps the ecologies of Mansfield's influences beyond her modernist and postcolonial contexts, observing that it roams wildly over six centuries, across three continents and beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries. This study identifies Mansfield's involvement in six modes of literary influence - Ambivalence, Exchange, Identification, Imitation, Enchantment and Legacy. In so doing, it revisits key issues in Mansfield studies, including her relationships with Virginia Woolf, John Middleton Murry and S. S. Koteliansky, as well as the famous plagiarism case regarding Anton Chekhov. It also charts new territories for exploration, expanding the terrain of Mansfield's influence to include writers as diverse as Colette, Evelyn Waugh, Nettie Palmer, Eve Langley and Frank Sargeson. Sarah Ailwood is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Canberra, Australia. Melinda Harvey is Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia. Cover image: Portrait of Katherine Mansfield by Sarah Laing Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com