LEADER 04346nam 22007335 450 001 9910495233403321 005 20231110133932.0 010 $a9783030713607 010 $a3030713601 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-71360-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011984042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6681413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6681413 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-71360-7 035 $a(BIP)079127299 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011984042 100 $a20210721d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aElizabeth Bowen $eA Literary Life /$fby Patricia Laurence 205 $a2nd ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (369 pages) 225 1 $aLiterary Lives,$x2946-2045 311 08$a9783030713591 311 08$a3030713598 327 $aChapter 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). 330 $aElizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer and presents her as a bold, independent woman who took risks and made her own rules in life and writing. This biography distinguishes itself from others in the depth of research into the life experiences that fueled Bowen's writing: her espionage for the British Ministry of Information in neutral Ireland, 1940-1941, and the devoted circle of friends, lovers, intellectuals and writers whom she valued: Isaiah Berlin, William Plomer, Maurice Bowra, Stuart Hampshire, Charles Ritchie, Sean O'Faolain, Virginia Woolf, Rosamond Lehmann, and Eudora Welty, among others. The biography also demonstrates how her feelings of irresolution about national identity and gender roles were dispelled through her writing. Her vivid fiction, often about girls and women, is laced with irony about smooth social surfaces rent by disruptive emotion, the sadness of beleaguered adolescents, the occurrence of cultural dislocation, historical atmosphere, as well as undercurrents of violence in small events, and betrayal and disappointment in romance. Her strong visual imagination-so much a part of the texture of her writing-traces places, scenes, landscapes, and objects that subliminally reveal hidden aspects of her characters. Though her reputation faltered in the 1960s-1970s given her political and social conservatism, now, readers are discovering her passionate and poetic temperament and writing as well as the historical consciousness behind her worldly exterior and writing. 410 0$aLiterary Lives,$x2946-2045 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 14$aLiterary History. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 676 $a823.912 676 $a823.912 700 $aLaurence$b Patricia$0854057 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495233403321 996 $aElizabeth Bowen$92240214 997 $aUNINA