Elizabeth Bowen : a literary life / Patricia Laurence.
Laurence, Patricia Ondek, 1942- author.
2021
PR6003.O6757
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Title Elizabeth Bowen : a literary life / Patricia Laurence.
Author Laurence, Patricia Ondek, 1942- author.
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9783030713607 (electronic bk.)
3030713601 (electronic bk.)
9783030713591
3030713598
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71360-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-71360-7 doi
Call Number PR6003.O6757
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.912
Summary 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 Bowens 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 OFaolain, 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, is 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 imaginationso much a part of the texture of her writingtraces 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Change (18991925)
Chapter 3: Terrains of the Imagination
Chapter 4: Outsiders (19251935)
Chapter 5: Love and Lovers
Chapter 6: Snapshots of War (19391945)
Chapter 7: Art and Intelligence (19401950)
Chapter 8: The Roving Eye
Chapter 9: Reading Backwards
Chapter 10: Late Life Collage (19501959)
Chapter 11: A Frightened Heart (19601973).

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