Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things

ISBN-13: 9781474458658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Jessica Gildersleeve;Patricia Juliana Smith

Opis

From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways 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 its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction Thinking in/about Bowen, Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith; 1. How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen’s Short Fiction, Aimee Gasston; 2. Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist, Keri Walsh; 3. Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text, Jessica Gildersleeve; 4. Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Adolescents, Renée C. Hoogland; 5. Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit, Ulrika Maude; 6. ‘One is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and the Spaces in Between, Emma Short; 7. ‘How Much of Nothing There Was’: Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen, Damien Tarnopolsky; 8. Bowen’s Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity, Laurie Johnson; 9. ‘Some Really Raging Peculiarity’: Female Fetishism The Little Girls, Patricia Juliana Smith; 10. Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout, Jasmin Kelaita;11. Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone, Andrew Bennett; Notes on Contributors; Index.