A “Pre-Natal Hold”: Elizabeth Bowen, Mothers and Daughters
This article argues that, faced with the disintegration of their patriarchal Ascendancy culture, Elizabeth Bowen’s young Anglo-Irish female protagonists in The Last September (1929) and A World of Love (1954) revert to the primordial mother-daughter relationship as an attempt to foster some sense of...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Estudios Irlandeses |
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| Online Access: | https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DARLING14.pdf |