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Hermione Lee's critical 'estimation' of Bowen's work finds the author's witty, stylish treatment of manners and emotions to have an austere basis in her critique of the English middle classes. Underlying the struggles of will between individuals in her novels and stories is a diagnosis of the dislocation and dispossessin of a whole society. Her preccupation with betrayal and loss, and her interest in conflict (between innocence and experience, egotism and social pressures, memory and the present) are fully considered.
In estimating the value of the whole range of her work, the book pays particular attention to the Anglo-Irish context, to Elizabeth Bowen's extraordinary evocation of war-time London, to her penetration into the minds of children and adolescents, and to her special predilection for the macabre and the supernatural. It also considers her achievement as a critic and a historian.
In estimating the value of the whole range of her work, the book pays particular attention to the Anglo-Irish context, to Elizabeth Bowen's extraordinary evocation of war-time London, to her penetration into the minds of children and adolescents, and to her special predilection for the macabre and the supernatural. It also considers her achievement as a critic and a historian.
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Review:
"Here's cause for rejoicing among old Bowen hands... Extremely intelligent and helpful... the best kind of advocate any novelist could desire" (Sunday Times)
"Hermione Lee is especially good on Bowen's Burkean sense of the 18th century... Ms Lee deals with complexities in tactful detail... convincing in her analyses of individual novels" (Observer)
"An intelligent, persuasive study... The most illuminating kind of criticism... an intelligent vision of the fiction [and] a balanced sense of literary context... Elizabeth Bowen makes us consider a distinguished writer anew" (New Statesman)
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"Hermione Lee is especially good on Bowen's Burkean sense of the 18th century... Ms Lee deals with complexities in tactful detail... convincing in her analyses of individual novels" (Observer)
"An intelligent, persuasive study... The most illuminating kind of criticism... an intelligent vision of the fiction [and] a balanced sense of literary context... Elizabeth Bowen makes us consider a distinguished writer anew" (New Statesman)
'Hermione Lee, in her indispensable, scholarly, penetrating and sympathetic study of Bowen's work, puts her finger on the tap-root of her author's powers' - London Review of Books
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- PublisherBarnes & Noble,Inc
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0389202045
- ISBN 13 9780389202042
- BindingHardcover
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