Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things

Jessica Gildersleeve; Patricia Juliana Smith

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Elizabeth Bowen

Theory, Thought and Things

Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474458665

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Explores Elizabeth Bowen’s significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory

Provides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen’s perception of writing and narrative
Moves away from perceptions of Bowen’s writing tied to existing ideological categories, such as viewing her work through a lens of psychoanalysis, modernism, or Irish or British history and which emphasise Bowen’s innovation not as central to our understanding of the changes happening in twentieth-century literature and history, but as instead a point of ‘difficulty’
Recognises Bowen’s innovation, experimentation and her impact on her contemporaries and literary descendants

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. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen’s inventiveness and unique writing style and attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Thinking in/about Bowen Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen’s Short Fiction Aimee Gasston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist Keri Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text Jessica Gildersleeve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Adolescents Renée C. Hoogland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit Ulrika Maude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6 ‘One is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfi eld and the Spaces in Between Emma Short Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
7 ‘How Much of Nothing There Was’: Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen Damian Tarnopolsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8 Bowen’s Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity Laurie Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
9 ‘Some Really Raging Peculiarity’: Female Fetishism The Little Girls Patricia Juliana Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout Jasmin Kelaita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone Andrew Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474458665