Elizabeth Bowen
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Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory 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…mehr

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Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory 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. Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York.
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Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author of Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), Don't Look Now (2017), and Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (2014), and editor of Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (with Richard Gehrmann, 2017). Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction. She has edited books and published articles on a variety of topics, including literature, popular culture, cinema, opera, religion, modernism and queer studies.