Elizabeth Bowen : theory, thought and things / edited by Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Author.

Contributor:

Gildersleeve, Jessica, editor.

Smith, Patricia Juliana, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Bowen, Elizabeth.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Modernism (Literature).

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 208 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking in/about Bowen

1 How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen’s Short Fiction

2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist

3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text

4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Adolescents

5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit

6 ‘One is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfi eld and the Spaces in Between

7 ‘How Much of Nothing There Was’: Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen

8 Bowen’s Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity

9 ‘Some Really Raging Peculiarity’: Female Fetishism The Little Girls

10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout

11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 1, 2020).

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474477147

1474477143

9781474458665

1474458661

OCLC:

1312726846