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This state-of-the-art collection of high-powered critical essays secures Elizabeth Bowen's position at the forefront of twentieth-century fiction. Resisting the tendency to pigeonhole her as a modernist, postmodernist or neo-realist, the contributors show how Bowen's startling originality puts such lifeless categories into question.-- ""Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago"" [Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things] will surely come to be recognized as an indispensable volume for Bowen scholars.--Maureen O'Connor, University College Cork ""Irish University Review""

"This state-of-the-art collection of high-powered critical essays secures Elizabeth Bowen's position at the forefront of twentieth-century fiction. Resisting the tendency to pigeonhole her as a modernist, postmodernist or neo-realist, the contributors show how Bowen's startling originality puts such lifeless categories into question.-- ""Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago"" [Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things] will surely come to be recognized as an indispensable volume for Bowen scholars.--Maureen O'Connor, University College Cork ""Irish University Review"""

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Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author of Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), Don't Look Now (2017), and Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (2014), and editor of Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (with Richard Gehrmann, 2017). Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction. She has edited books and published articles on a variety of topics, including literature, popular culture, cinema, opera, religion, modernism and queer studies.

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