"Lively and topical. Firmly anchored in contemporary theory,
Hoogland's analyses are witty and original, stylishly written and
convincing. She confirms what one always suspected about
adolescence, agency and identity in Bowen's heroines, and places
Elizabeth Bowen in a startling context which is bound to bring her
a whole new generation of attentive readers."
--Jane Marcus, CUNY Graduate Center
Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral
figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific
outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial
body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical
quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one.
Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor
a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a
wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis,
from narratology to deconstruction-this book presents a radical
re-reading of a selection of Bowen's novels from a lesbian feminist
perspective.
Taking into account both cultural contexts and the author's
non-fictional writings, the book's main focus is on configurations
of gender and sexuality. Bowen's fiction constitutes an exploration
of the unstable and destabilizing effects of sexuality in the
interdependent processes of subjectivity and what she herself
referred to as so-called reality.
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