Contents -- Preface: Who's Been Reading Katherine Mansfield? -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources -- PART ONE: READING MANSFIELD -- 1 Canon, Colony, and Critical Expectation -- PART TWO: READING AND WRITING -- 2 Reading Reading -- 3 In the Act of Writing: Manuscript Practice -- 4 A Catalogue of Forms -- 5 Metaphors of Form -- PART THREE: READING FOR FORM -- 6 Reiteration: Stories of Static Action -- 7 Overturns: Stories of Deferral -- 8 After and Before: The Epilogues and "Prelude" -- 9 The Art of Reconstruction: Reading "The Escape" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Permissions.