Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction

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ISBN: 9781474480499

Author	Coulson, Victoria
Pub Date	30/11/2020
Binding	Hardback
Pages	240
Country	GBR
Dewey	823.912
Series	Midcentury Modern Writers

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Quick overview This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.

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Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction

The first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction to appear since 2004
Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short stories
Literary analysis informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation

This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowen's work and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges, Coulson presents a pyschoanalytic literary interpretation informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation.

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