Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing: 10 (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)

Renee Carine Hoogland

ISBN 10: 0814735010 / ISBN 13: 9780814735015

Published by NYU Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing: 10 (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814735010
• ISBN 13: 9780814735015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one.
Surfacing in both subject matter and style, her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed. Using a wide range of critical theories-from semiotics to psychoanalysis, from narratology to deconstruction-this book presents a radical re-reading of a selection of Bowen's novels from a lesbian feminist perspective.
Taking into account both cultural contexts and the author's non-fictional writings, the book's main focus is on configurations of gender and sexuality. Bowen's fiction constitutes an exploration of the unstable and destabilizing effects of sexuality in the interdependent processes of subjectivity and what she herself referred to as so-called reality.

About the Author

Rene C. Hoogland is Lecturer in Lesbian Studies/Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on feminist/lesbian theory, postmodernism, women's and lesbian literature, and Hollywood cinema. She is now working on a book about sexual ambivalences in British and American cultural texts of the early 1960s.