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

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 208 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Thinking in/about Bowen / Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith -- How to be yourself-but not eccentric : clothes, style and self in Bowen's short fiction / Aimee Gasston -- Elizabeth Bowen : surrealist / Keri Walsh -- Elizabeth Bowen and the pleasure of the text / Jessica Gildersleeve -- Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen's queer adolescents / renée c. hoogland -- Tender ties : Elizabeth Bowen and habit / Ulrika Maude -- "One is somehow suspended" : Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield and the spaces in between / Emma Short -- "How much of nothing there was" : trying (not) to understand Elizabeth Bowen / Damian Tarnopolsky -- Bowen's recesses : from realism to inter-objectivity / Laurie Johnson -- "Some really raging peculiarity" : female fetishism in "The Little Girls" / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Housekeeping and the fiction of subjectivity in "Eva Trout" / Jasmin Kelaita -- Elizabeth Bowen on the telephone / Andrew Bennett.
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.
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Subject Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Gildersleeve, Jessica, editor.
Smith, Patricia Juliana, editor.
Added Title Theory, thought and things
Other Form: Print version: Elizabeth Bowen. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019 1474458645 (OCoLC)1107516959
ISBN 9781474458665 (electronic book)
1474458661 (electronic book)
1474458645
9781474458641
1474458645
9781474458641
9781474458672 Electronic book (EPUB format)
147445867X
Standard No. 9781474458641