Unlived lives, imaginary widowhood and Elizabeth Bowen's a world of love
This article reads Elizabeth Bowen’s 1955 novel A World of Love as exploring the legacy of certain highly imaginative coping mechanisms that were adopted by women in response to wartime losses. Acknowledging how Bowen’s mid-century works exhibit a curious return to the lot of those who came of age a...
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Oxford University Press
2020
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