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Elizabeth Bowen

Author : Patricia Laurence
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030264157
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Bowen written by Patricia Laurence and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A World of Love

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400031052
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of Love written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth. In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother’s one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house. Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living.

The Last Day at Bowen's Court

Author : Eibhear Walshe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999997083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Last Day at Bowen's Court written by Eibhear Walshe and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Day at Bowen's Court deals with the life of the Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, her time in London during the Second World War and her 'reporting' on Irish neutrality for the Ministry of Information. At the centre of the novel is her Blitz love affair with the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, a wartime romance that inspired her most famous novel, The Heat of the Day, a gripping story about espionage and loyalty that became a best-seller. The novel is told from the point of view of Bowen herself, and also from that of her lover Charles Ritchie, her husband Alan Cameron and Ritchie's wife Sylvia. It is set in wartime London, Dublin and North Cork, and deals with the private and public conflicts of love and of national identity in a time of upheaval and liberation. At the centre of the novel is a portrait of Elizabeth Bowen, one of Ireland's most influential writers.

The Shadowy Third

Author : Julia Parry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715654491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Shadowy Third written by Julia Parry and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed, this unique and compelling personal biography uncovers the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents.

Collected Stories

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496872
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.

Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction

Author : Heather Levy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628181
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction written by Heather Levy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States. Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's unpublished short stories.

The Last September

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Last September written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School Education

Author : Charlotte Maria Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book School Education written by Charlotte Maria Mason and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Georgian Pageant

Author : Frank Frankfort Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Georgian Pageant written by Frank Frankfort Moore and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irish Women Writers

Author : Ann Owens Weekes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318472X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Irish Women Writers written by Ann Owens Weekes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary poet Oisin to modernist masters like James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, Ireland's literary tradition has made its mark on the Western canon. Despite its proud tradition, the student who searches the shelves for works on Irish women's fiction is liabel to feel much as Virginia Woolf did when she searched the British Museum for work on women by women. Critic Nuala O'Faolain, when confronted with this disparity, suggested that "modern Irish literature is dominated by men so brilliant in their misanthropy... [that] the self-respect of Irish women is radically and paradoxically checkmated by respect for an Irish national achievement." While Ann Owen Weekes does not argue with the first part of O'Faolain's assertion, she does with the second. In Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, she suggests that it is the critics rather than the writers who have allowed themselves to be checkmated. Beginning with Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and ending with Jennifer Johnston's The Railway Station (1980), she surveys the best of the Ireland's female literature to show its artistic and historic significance and to demonstrate that it has its own themes and traditions related to, yet separate from, that of male Irish writers. Weekes examines the work of writers like E.OE. Sumerville and Martin Ross (pen names for cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin), Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, and Molly Keane, among others. She teases out the themes that recur in these writers' works, including the link between domestic and political violence and re-visioning of traditional stories, such as Julia O'Faolain's use of the Cuchulain and Diarmuid and Grainne myths to reveal the negation of women's autonomy. In doing so, she demonstrates that the literature of Anglo- and Gaelic-Irish women presents a unified tradition of subjects and techniques, a unity that might become an optimistic model not only for Irish literature but also for Irish people.

Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction

Author : Ellen Crowell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631011
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction written by Ellen Crowell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy. As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.

Bowen's Court

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Bowen's Court written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eva Trout

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099287749
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Eva Trout written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book was the author's last completed novel, first published in 1968.

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

Author : Charles E Cobb Jr.
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080952
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed written by Charles E Cobb Jr. and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal." Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to selfprotection -- yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing -- and, when necessary, using -- firearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement's success. Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.

The Cat Jumps and Other Stories

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Cat Jumps and Other Stories written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bazaar and Other Stories

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748635719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Bazaar and Other Stories written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama.Covering a range of situations--broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime--these previously uncollected stories demonstrate the virtuosity that characterizes all of Elizabeth Bowen's writing."The Lost Hope" ranks with the best of her war stories. Shattering the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, the war cancels the promise shown by the generation that came of age in the 1940s. Yet the war also clears a path to the future, as happens in "Comfort and Joy" and "The Last Bus." Humour in these tales ranges from the sardonic to the light-hearted. In the title story, "The Bazaar," Captain Winch begs everyone for pins and ends up stealing some. With this collection, Bowen, gifted with keen social observation, justifies her place in the company of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.

A Time in Rome

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496864
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book A Time in Rome written by Elizabeth Bowen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities and speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems caused by the Romans' dining posture, and the Roman temperament. She evokes the city's moods - by day, when it is characterised by golden sunlight, and at night, when the blaze of the moon 'annihilates history'.