Elizabeth Bowen A Literary Life /

• Main Author: Laurence, Patricia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Literary Lives
• Subjects: Literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; World War, 1939-1945.; Popular Science in Literature.; Literary History.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.

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, ind...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Change
• Chapter 3: Terrains of the Imagination
• Chapter 4: Outsiders
• Chapter 5: Love and Lovers
• Chapter 6: Snapshots of War
• Chapter 7: Art and Intelligence
• Chapter 8: The Roving Eye
• Chapter 9: Reading Backwards
• Chapter 10: Late Life Collage
• Chapter 11: A Frightened Heart.