This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. It integrates the latest thinking about her engagement, stances, and knowledge of twentieth-century literary movements. Elizabeth Bowen often remarked that she grew up with the twentieth century. Indeed, her writings are coterminous with the technological, social, and cultural developments of modernity. Her novels and short stories, like her essays, register changes in architecture, visual art, soundscapes, the aesthetics and technique of fiction, attitudes towards sex and greater social freedom for women, and the long repercussions of warfare across the twentieth century. Bowen's writing reflects a deep engagement with other authors, whether they were her antecedents - Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, and D. H. Lawrence, among others - or her contemporaries, such as Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and Eudora Welty. Her fiction and essays are a barometer of the literary, political, social, and cultural contexts in which she lived and wrote.
| ISBN: | 9781009536004 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2026 |
| Author: | Allan Hepburn |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 397 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Gender studies, gender groups Impact of science and technology on society Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. It integrates the latest thinking about her engagement, stances, and knowledge of twentieth-century literary movements. Elizabeth Bowen often remarked that she grew up with the twentieth century. Indeed, her writings are coterminous with the technological, social, and cultural developments of modernity. Her novels and short stories, like her essays, register changes in architecture, visual art, soundscapes, the aesthetics and technique of fiction, attitudes towards sex and greater social freedom for women, and the long repercussions of warfare across the twentieth century. Bowen's writing reflects a deep engagement with other authors, whether they were her antecedents - Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, and D. H. Lawrence, among others - or her contemporaries, such as Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and Eudora Welty. Her fiction and essays are a barometer of the literary, political, social, and cultural contexts in which she lived and wrote.
Elizabeth Bowen in Context features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Gender studies, gender groups, Impact of science and technology on society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Elizabeth Bowen in Context is available in Hardback
Elizabeth Bowen in Context was written by Allan Hepburn and published by Cambridge University Press
Elizabeth Bowen in Context has 397 pages
Yes it is part of Literature in Context series