Abstract

This chapter employs aspects of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and post-colonial theory to argue that class and class consciousness are integral to understanding Katherine Mansfield’s exploration of the lives of middle- and upper-middle-class women in stories such as “The Garden Party,” “Bliss,” and “Marriage à la Mode.” It concludes by briefly examining the degree to which the dramatic increase in divorce during and just after WWI, and the political rise of the working-class post-WWI, alluded to in the stories, both shaped their narratives and spoke to the times in which she wrote.

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