Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen Criticism

• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 1)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 118)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Short Story
    • Elizabeth Bowen; or, Romance Does Not Pay
    • 'There Is No Elsewhere': Elizabeth Bowen's Perceptions of War
    • The Past Is a Burning Pattern: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September
    • Ambiguous Ghosts: The Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
    • Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September: The Loss of the Past and the Modern Consciousness
    • The Tree of Jesse and the Voyage Out: Stability and Disorder in Elizabeth Bowen's Friends and Relations
    • Elizabeth Bowen's 'Her Table Spread': A Joycean Irish Story
    • 'A More Sinister Troth': Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Demon Lover' as Allegory
    • Elizabeth Bowen: The House, the Hotel & the Child
  • Further Reading
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 22)
  • Introduction
  • Allan E. Austin
  • The Placing of Loss: Elizabeth Bowen's 'To the North'
  • Dreams in War: Second Thoughts on Elizabeth Bowen
  • Women and War
  • Between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire
  • Seventy-Nine Stories to Read Again
  • Mask & Mood
  • The Power of the Unstated
  • 'Fiction Chronicle': 'The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen'
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 3)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 15)
  • Introduction
  • Cracks in the Psyche: Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Demon Lover'
  • Between Living and Writing
  • An Anglo-Irish Novelist
  • Pattern and Void: Bowen's Irish Landscapes and 'The Heat of the Day'
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 6)
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 11)
  • Introduction
  • The Loss of Eden: Four Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
  • Edwin J. Kenney, Jr.
  • A Sense of Place: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of the Heart
  • The Placing of Loss: Elizabeth Bowen's 'To the North'
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Elizabeth Bowen's ‘The Demon Lover’: Psychosis or Seduction
    • Elizabeth Bowen's ‘The Happy Autumn Fields’: A Dream or Not?
    • Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, and a New Generation: The Irish Short Story at Midcentury
    • Undertones of Horror in Elizabeth Bowen's Look at All Those Roses and The Cat Jumps
    • ‘The Ghostly Origins of Female Character’ and ‘Comedies of Sex and Manners’
    • Nostalgic Narcissism in Comic and Tragic Perspectives: Elizabeth Bowen's Two Fictional Reworkings of a Tennyson Lyric
    • Souls Astray: Elizabeth Bowen's Landscape of War
    • When the Past Does Not Feed the Future: The ‘Idea of the Past’ in Three Bowen Stories
    • Bruised Boys and ‘Fallen’ Women: The Need for Rescue in Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
    • The Moral Argument of Elizabeth Bowen's Ghost Stories
  • Further Reading
• Bowen, Elizabeth (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Pattern and Void: Bowen's Irish Landscapes and The Heat of the Day
    • The Enclosed Garden in Elizabeth Bowen's A World of Love
    • The Bend Back: A World of Love (1955), The Little Girls (1964) and Eva Trout (1968)
    • The Recovery of the Past in A World of Love
    • The Power of the Past
    • Fictional Silences
    • The Heat of the Day: Modernism and Narrative in Paul de Man and Elizabeth Bowen
    • The Liberation of Mourning in Elizabeth Bowen's The Little Girls and Eva Trout
    • Women and Desire in the Work of Elizabeth Bowen
    • The Misfortunes of Eva Trout
    • Re-reading Elizabeth Bowen
    • Little Girls and Large Women: Representations of the Female Body in Elizabeth Bowen's Later Fiction
    • Identity
    • Communication
  • Further Reading