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Description of  Elizabeth Bowen s Psychoanalytic Fiction (Midcentury Modern Writers)

Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowens fiction The first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowens fiction to appear since 2004 Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short stories Literary analysis informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation This book provides a new account of Bowens fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowens virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowens work and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges, Coulson presents a pyschoanalytic literary interpretation informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation. Read more