A Ghost of Style
A World of Love (1955)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23757586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Corcoran (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 61-78 |
| 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/9780198186908.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2488336175 |
| ISBN | 9780198186908 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This chapter focuses on Bowen's novel, A World of Love, reading it against The Last September as a work taking up again decades later themes announced there, and bringing to an end Bowen's fictional representations of Ireland and the fate of the Anglo-Irish. It interprets the ambiguous presence of the supernatural in the book which reveals, in part, Bowen's permanent obsession with the First World War. It also suggests that this novel is self-consciously bringing to conclusion the line of the Anglo-Irish novel in which such authors as Somerville and Ross are especially prominent. This chapter also includes material on Bowen's frequent, peculiar uses of Shakespeare, and interprets her particular responsiveness in this novel to the work of T. S. Eliot.
Art · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process) · Style (visual arts) · History · Irish and British Studies · Literature and Culture Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |