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Elizabeth Bowen = A Literary Life /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Elizabeth Bowen/ by Patricia Laurence.
Reminder of title:	A Literary Life /
Author:	Laurence, Patricia.
Description:	XIV, 357 p. 24 illus., 8 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	British and Irish Literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4
ISBN:	9783030264154

Elizabeth Bowen = A Literary Life /
Laurence, Patricia.

Elizabeth BowenA Literary Life /[electronic resource] :by Patricia Laurence. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIV, 357 p. 24 illus., 8 illus. in color.online resource. - Literary Lives. - Literary Lives.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Change -- Chapter 3: Terrains of the Imagination -- Chapter 4: Outsiders -- Chapter 5: Love and Lovers -- Chapter 6: Snapshots of War -- Chapter 7: Art and Intelligence -- Chapter 8: The Roving Eye -- Chapter 9: Reading Backwards -- Chapter 10: Late Life Collage -- Chapter 11: A Frightened Heart.

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer and presents her as a bold, independent woman who took risks and made her own rules in life and writing. This biography distinguishes itself from others in the depth of research into the life experiences that fueled Bowen’s writing: her espionage for the British Ministry of Information in neutral Ireland, 1940-1941, and the devoted circle of friends, lovers, intellectuals and writers whom she valued: Isaiah Berlin, William Plomer, Maurice Bowra, Stuart Hampshire, Charles Ritchie, Sean O’Faolain, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, and Eudora Welty, among others. The biography also demonstrates how her feelings of irresolution about national identity and gender roles were dispelled through her writing. Her vivid fiction, often about girls and women, are laced with irony about smooth social surfaces rent by disruptive emotion, the sadness of beleaguered adolescents, the occurrence of cultural dislocation, historical atmosphere, as well as undercurrents of violence in small events, and betrayal and disappointment in romance. Her strong visual imagination—so much a part of the texture of her writing—traces places, scenes, landscapes, and objects that subliminally reveal hidden aspects of her characters. Though her reputation faltered in the 1960s-1970s given her political and social conservatism, now, readers are discovering her passionate and poetic temperament and writing as well as the historical consciousness behind her worldly exterior and writing.

ISBN: 9783030264154

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1104874
British and Irish Literature.

LC Class. No.: PN1-6790

Dewey Class. No.: 800

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