This edited collection provides a complete academic account of the fictions of<strong>Elizabeth Bowen</strong> 18991973 the most important AngloIrish novelist ... » 

This edited collection provides a complete academic account of the fictions ofElizabeth Bowen 18991973 the most important AngloIrish novelist of the20th century. It covers Bowens life her family background and her writingcareer between London and North Cork. Of particular interest is her position asan AngloIrish writer and her centrality as a major novelist within thetraditions of 20th century writing within modernist literature and inparticular within modern Irish writing. This book provides an overall culturalcontext for her novels and short stories. Each chapter explores Bowens linkswith other 20th century novelists and her modernist deployment of the novelform her representation of Ireland of the AngloIrish and of the Irish War ofIndependence. Also considered are the wide range of Bowens short stories from1929 up to 1967 and her experience of living in London during the Second WorldWar. Other chapters discuss the changes in narrative form used in B «