Patricia Laurence: Elizabeth Bowen

Cover: 9783030713591 | Elizabeth Bowen | A Literary Life | Patricia Laurence | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

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, 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 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.

Über den Autor

Patricia Laurence is Professor Emerita of English, City College of New York, USA. She has published widely on transnational modernism, Bloomsbury and women writers including The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (1991); Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China (2001); Julian Bell: The Violent Pacifist (2005).

Zusammenfassung

Draws on Bowen's letters to friends and fellow intellectuals like Isaiah Berlin and writers like Virginia Woolf and Eudora Welty

Delves into Bowen's espionage for the British Ministry of Information in Ireland

Up-to-date analysis of Bowen's recent new editions, essays, and broadcasts and includes interviews with Bowen's family

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Change (1899-1925).- Chapter 3: Terrains of the Imagination.- Chapter 4: Outsiders (1925-1935).- Chapter 5: Love and Lovers.- Chapter 6: Snapshots of War (1939-1945).- Chapter 7: Art and Intelligence (1940-1950).- Chapter 8: The Roving Eye.- Chapter 9: Reading Backwards.- Chapter 10: Late Life Collage (1950-1959).- Chapter 11: A Frightened Heart (1960-1973).

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Literary Lives
Inhalt:	xvi 357 S. 7 farbige Illustr. 357 p. 7 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030713591
ISBN-10:	3030713598
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Laurence, Patricia
Auflage:	2nd ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Literary Lives
Maße:	235 x 155 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Patricia Laurence
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.07.2021
Gewicht:	0,569 kg

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