- Additional Authors
- Plumridge, Anna
- Description
- ix, 118 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- An authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield's camping journal, offering new understandings of her colonial life Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of the Urewera Notebook during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever. Her camping notes offer a rare insight into her attitude to her country of birth, not in retrospective fiction but as a nineteen year old still living in the colony. This publication is theirst scholarly edition of the Urewera Notebook, providing an original transcription, a collation of the alternative readings and textual criticism of prior editors, and new information about the politics, people and places Mansfield encountered on her journey. As a whole, this edition challenges the debate that has focused on Mansfield's happiness or dissatisfaction throughout her last year in New Zealand to reveal a young writer closely observing aspects of a country hitherto beyond her experience and forming a complex critique of her colonial homeland. Key Features: A new, more accurate transcription of the notebook Textual notes provide significant variant readings from other extant editions of the notebook An introductory essay draws on important new developments in New Zealand literary criticism, advances in historiography of the period and legal history Includes a route map, revised itinerary and authoritative annotation for the text Includes 20 photographs, many previously unpublished, from Beauchamp family photograph albums at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Ebbett Papers at the Hawke's Bay Museum.
- Subject
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 > Travel > New Zealand > North Island
- Note
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: General Introduction -- The Role of the Ùrewera Notebook' in Mansfield's Biography -- Context to the Camping Trip -- Life in Wellington -- Hawke's Bay and Kaingaroa -- The Urewera -- Rotorua and the Geothermal District -- The Ùrewera Notebook' Reconsidered -- Mansfield's Attitude to the Landscape -- Mansfield's Attitude to Maori -- Mansfield's Attitude to Colonials -- Textual Introduction -- Physical Description of the Ùrewera Notebook' -- Editorial History -- John Middleton Murry: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933) and the Journal of Katherine Mansfield 1904 -- 1922: Definitive Edition (1954) -- John Middleton Murry: Context -- John Middleton Murry: Editorial Methods -- John Middleton Murry: Contextual Aids -- John Middleton Murry: Critical Reception -- Ian A. Gordon: The Urewera Notebook (1978) -- Ian A. Gordon: Context -- Ian A. Gordon: Editorial Methods -- Ian A. Gordon: Contextual Aids -- Ian A. Gordon: Critical Reception --
- Call Number
- JFF 15-813
- ISBN
- 9781474400152 (hbk.)
- 1474400159 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 910846483
- Author
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923, author.
- Title
The Urewera notebook / by Katherine Mansfield ; edited by Anna Plumridge.
- Publisher
Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Added Author
Plumridge, Anna, editor.
- Research Call Number
JFF 15-813