Elizabeth Bowen

by Osborn, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781859184356
• ISBN10: 1859184359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-30
• Publisher: Cork Univ Pr

Summary

Recently, Elizabeth Bowen has been recognised as being as radically important to our understanding of twentieth-century literature as Samuel Beckett and she is now considered among the most highly significant writers of the twentieth century. This collection of essays is intended to broaden the critical framework of Bowen scholarship and to extend Bowen criticism by more clearly mapping her works' position in relation to contemporary critical concerns and its location in relation to twentieth-century literature generally.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Unstable compounds: Bowen's Beckettian affinities	p. 13
'How to measure this unaccountable darkness between the trees': the strange relation of style and meaning in The Last September	p. 34
Dead letters and living things: historical ethics in The House in Paris and The Death of the Heart	p. 61
Mumbo-jumbo: the haunted world of The Little Girls	p. 83
'She-ward bound': Elizabeth Bowen as a sensationalist writer	p. 96
Territory, space, modernity: Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover and Other Stories and wartime London	p. 113
Narrative, meaning and agency in The Heat of the Day	p. 132
Notes	p. 149
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 167
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