People, places, things : essays / by Elizabeth Bowen ; edited with an introduction by Allan Hepburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.

Contributor:

Hepburn, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--Ireland--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tensions, she evokes the particular climate of countries and places in ""Hungary,"" ""Prague and the Crisis,"" and ""Bowen's Court."" In ""Britain in Autumn,"" she records the strained atmosphere of the blitz as no other writer does. Immediately after the war, she reported on the International Peace Conference in Paris in a series of essays that are startling in their evocation of tense diplomacy among i

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; LIGHT; Modern Lighting; The 1938 Academy: An Unprofessional View; Christmas at Bowen's Court; The Light in the Dark; Ecstasy of the Eye; New Waves of the Future; PLACES; Britain in Autumn; By the Unapproachable Sea; Foreword to The Cinque Ports; The Idea of France; Paris Peace Conference: 1946. An Impression; Paris Peace Conference - Some Impressions 1; Paris Peace Conference - Some Impressions 2; Paris Peace Conference - Some Impreesions 3; Prague and the Crisis; Hungary; Without Coffee, Cigarettes, or Feeling; Regent's Park and St. John's Wood

New York Waiting in My MemoryPEOPLE; Miss Willis; Paul Morand; Mainie Jellett; Foreword to Olive Willis and Downe House; HOUSES; The Christmas Toast is "Home!"; Opening up the House; Home for Christmas; Bowen's Court; IRELAND; Letter from Ireland; Ireland Makes Irish; How They Live in Ireland: Conquest by Cheque-Book; Ireland; Introduction to The House by the Church-yard; THINGS; Toys; Calico Windows; Introduction to The ABC of Millinery; The Teakettle; On Giving a Present; The Art of Giving; Mirrors Are Magic; WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS; Jane Austen; Introduction to Pride and Prejudice

What Jane Austen Means to MePersuasion; Introduction to No One to Blame; James Joyce; New Writers; Guy de Maupassant; Foreword to Tomato Cain and Other Stories; Foreword to Haven: Short Stories, Poems and Aphorisms; Introduction to The Stories of William Sansom; A Matter of Inspiration; Introduction to An Angela Thirkell Omnibus; A Passage to E. M. Forster; Introduction to Staying with Relations; FAIRY TALES; Comeback of Goldilocks et al.; Introduction to The King of the Golden River; Enchanted Centenary of the Brothers Grimm; ON WRITING; What We Need in Writing; The Short Story in England

Introduction to ChanceIntroduction to The Observer Prize Stories; English Fiction at Mid-Century; Rx for a Story Worth the Telling; Preface to Critics Who Have Influenced Taste; AGE; Modern Girlhood; Teenagers; Mental Annuity; The Case for Summer Romance; The Beauty of Being Your Age; Was It an Art?; WOMEN; An Enormous Channel of Expectation; Enemies of Charm in Women, in Men; Woman's Place in the Affairs of Man; Outrageous Ladies; VARIOUS ARTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS; A Way of Life; The Forgotten Art of Living; The Art of Respecting Boundaries; The Virtue of Optimism; Disappointment 1

Disappointment 2How to Be Yourself - But Not Eccentric; The Thread of Dreams; Notes; Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-467).

ISBN:

9786612059025

9781282059023

1282059025

9780748635702

074863570X

OCLC:

476252539