Mother and Child
The House in Paris (1935)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23702121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Corcoran (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 81-101 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Elizabeth Bowen (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186908.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2497456950 |
| ISBN | 9780198186908 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The House in Paris, as her major statement about maternity and orphanhood — subjects that preoccupied her all her life, having strong autobiographical roots. It understands the novel as self-consciously both aligning itself with, and divorcing itself from, the work of Henry James and the 19th-century novel of adultery (Flaubert, Tolstoy), placing unique emphasis on the figure of the child. It interprets the novel's arrestingly unique structure as both a response to Modernist forms and a necessity of the subject matter. It also explores the novel's fairy tale elements and considers its view of its Jewish characters in the light of the rise of European fascism in the 1930s.
Adultery · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Emphasis (telecommunications) · Epistemology · Genealogy · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Statement (logic) · Subject (documents) · Subject matter · Theology · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |