The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’ in a variety of genres, and to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Using the neologism ‘dyslocution’ Hirst demonstrates how influences from French syntax and from poetic techniques have contributed to Bowen’s fragmented syntax.