Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page

by Maud Ellmann

Book Overview

WINNER of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Literary Prize This study offers an authoritative introduction to Elizabeth Bowen's works, revealing both their pleasures for the fiction-addict and their fascinations for the literary critic, theorist, and historian. It also provides a lucid introduction - by demonstration - to psychoanalytic modes of reading, and shows how such readings are enriched by an understanding of the writer's life and times...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617027
• ISBN13: 9780748617029
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher