Elizabeth Bowen and the dissolution of the novel
Elizabeth Bowen and the dissolution of the novel
First published 1994
About this book
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioners of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself.
Bowen's ten novels have been viewed as 'society' novels, novels of 'manners', modelled on - but inferior to - the writings of Henry James, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. But the fundamental strangeness of Bowen's novels has gone largely unacknowledged.
Subjects
HistoryIn literatureWomen and literatureTechniqueCriticism and interpretationFictionBowen, ElizabethBowen, Elizabeth, 1899-19731899-197320th centuryBowen, Elizabeth,IrelandReferenceEnglish fiction, history and criticism, 20th centuryCriticism and interpretationbowen, elizabeth , 1899-1973Women and literature--historyWomen and literature--ireland--history--20th centuryPr6003.o6757 z515 1994823/.912