Elizabeth Bowen : : Theory, Thought and Things / / Jessica Gildersleeve, Patricia Juliana Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Gildersleeve, Jessica,; Smith, Patricia Juliana ,
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Andrew,; Gasston, Aimee,; Gildersleeve, Jessica,; Hoogland, Renée C.,; Johnson, Laurie,; Kelaita, Jasmin,; Maude, Ulrika,; Short, Emma,; Smith, Patricia Juliana,; Tarnopolsky, Damian,; Walsh, Keri,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Explores Elizabeth Bowen’s significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theoryProvides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen’s perception of writing and narrativeMoves away from perceptions of Bowen’s writing tied to existing ideological...

Table of 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