Casting ‘a haunting light’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood

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This chapter discusses Katherine Mansfield’s appreciation and revision of the Edwardian ideal of childhood as personified by Peter Pan. Though tropes related to Peter Pan abound in Mansfield’s writings, they are redressed as troubled, liminal, and gothic imaginings slanting towards modernist understandings of children and childhood. The chapter thus traces prominent strands of Mansfield’s creative rethinking of literary childhood inherited from the Edwardians. It concludes that by acknowledging childhood’s innate complexity, Mansfield demonstrates that a true vision of childhood is created in a time and place where darkness and light coexist and converge, rather than in a stagnant though eternal Neverland.

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