It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price…

Presents an academic account of the fictions of Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), the most important Anglo-Irish novelist of the 20th century. This book covers Bowen’s life, her family background and her…

Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES…

Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank…

The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house…

From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen’s work straddles, informs and defies…

A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

Of all Bowen’s novels, this is perhaps the most personal and the most domestic. It gives a view of a wealthy middle class enjoying the sunset of its prosperity, security…