Name: Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Country House Fiction From Elizabeth Bowen to ivy Compton-Burnett (Writers and Their Work) (en Inglés)
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Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Country House Fiction From Elizabeth Bowen to ivy Compton-Burnett (Writers and Their Work) (en Inglés)

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Liverpool University Press

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Andrew Radford

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Inglés

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144

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9781805960102

Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Country House Fiction From Elizabeth Bowen to ivy Compton-Burnett (Writers and Their Work) (en Inglés)

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In 1940, as English country estates faced requisition, neglect, and the threat of aerial bombardment, Elizabeth Bowen observed that life in the 'Big House, in its circle of trees' exerted a powerful and enduring 'spell'. That spell still shapes English literary culture, dominated by an apparently familiar landscape of imposing fictional residences - Brideshead, Howards End, Poynton, Pemberley - whose grandeur seems to promise continuity, heritage, and reassurance.This book challenges that familiar map. It argues that a group of technically daring and prolific women novelists deliberately returned to the country house in the mid-twentieth century not as nostalgic inheritors, but as sharp-eyed anatomists of its habits, myths, and moral authority. Through close readings of works by Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Barbara Comyns, this book shows how the country house novel of the 1940s and 1950s became a distinctive imaginative space in which literary tradition itself could be tested and unsettled.At a moment when the civic, economic, and ideological foundations of the landed estate were visibly cracking, these writers transformed the stately home from a repository of lineage and cultural memory into a site of exposure. Far from offering reassurance, their fiction reveals the persistence of social hierarchies whose authority has begun to hollow out even as they endure.