Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction
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Anglo-Irish Literature
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crime without punishment
Elizabeth Bowen
English Literature
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literary criticism
moral transgression
murder
Perpetrator Trauma movement
short story
suicide
violence
violence in literature
women's literature
Women's Studies
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- ISBN 9781793628176
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 162 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States. Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's unpublished short stories.
Heather Levy is professor of English literature at Western Connecticut State University.
