Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Thinking in/about Bowen 1
5. 1 How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen’s Short Fiction 9
6. 2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist 28
7. 3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text 48
8. 4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Adolescents 62
9. 5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit 79
10. 6 ‘One is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfi eld and the Spaces in Between 96
11. 7 ‘How Much of Nothing There Was’: Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen 113
12. 8 Bowen’s Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity 127
13. 9 ‘Some Really Raging Peculiarity’: Female Fetishism The Little Girls 145
14. 10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout 165
15. 11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone 182
16. Notes on Contributors 199
17. Index 202