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Elizabeth Bowen - The Enforced Return (Hardcover, New)
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Elizabeth Bowen - The Enforced Return (Hardcover, New)
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Elizabeth Bowen is a writer who is still too little appreciated.
Neil Corcoran presents here a critical study of her novels, short
stories, family history, and essays, and shows that her work both
inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its
experimental traditions. Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return
explores how she adapts Irish Protestant Gothic as a means of
interpreting Irish experience during the Troubles of the 1920s and
the Second World War, and also as a way of defining the
defencelessness of those enduring the Blitz in wartime London. She
employs versions of the Jamesian child as a way of offering a
critique of the treatment of children in the European novel of
adultery, and indeed, implicitly, of the Jamesian child itself.
Corcoran relates the various kinds of return and reflex in her
work-notably the presence of the supernatural, but also the sense
of being haunted by reading-to both the Freudian concept of the
'return of the repressed' and to T. S. Eliot's conception of the
auditory imagination as a 'return to the origin'. Making greater
interpretative use of extra-fictional materials than previous Bowen
critics (notably her wartime reports from neutral Ireland to
Churchill's government and the diaries of her wartime lover, the
Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie), Corcoran reveals how her
fiction merges personal story with public history. Employing a
wealth of original research, his radical new readings propose that
Bowen is as important as Samuel Beckett to twentieth-century
literary studies-a writer who returns us anew to the histories of
both her time and ours.
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