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Tivnan, Shannon L.

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Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen./
Author:	Tivnan, Shannon L.
Description:	137 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3707773
ISBN:	9781321825374

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen.
Tivnan, Shannon L.

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen. - 137 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In much of the writing of twentieth century Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, houses, and in particular family homes, often reflect the psychological and social status of their inhabitants. They can be understood as the structural embodiments of the vast cultural and economic network taking shape as the forces of urbanization and industrialization changed the landscape. Yet, even as these domestic spaces represent the predominant social relations characterizing the first half of the twentieth century, the family homes also can play a key role in character development and gender identity, defining the lives of those who inhabit them, by perpetuating these same previously established and codified social roles and relationships. The family home in Bowen is often characterized by the furniture and objects that fill and structure its interior space, and the resulting pattern of experience functions to confine and represent the lives and expectations of its residents. As a result, for each of these families, this domestic space and the memories with which it is associated exert a strong and compelling force on the family members' present psychological and emotional states, as well as their expectations for the future. Although the social conventions of the family home can be suffocating in their definition of these expectations, especially for the women of the house, these conventions also supply a stability and constancy that is perhaps conducive to the very formation of a stable identity. The security promised by the inner order of the home comes to determine the psychological stability of the inhabitants' subjective reality, though the many upheavals that inundated the first half of the twentieth century succeeded in revealing that spatial security as an illusion. If Bowen's characters are to succeed in achieving a self-determined identity in the new, precarious reality of the modern century, they must not only reconcile themselves to the legacy of the family home and the past traditions that it embodies, but also determine a new basis for self-realization as a twentieth century subject outside of the prescribed roles defined and perpetuated by a more traditional domestic space.

ISBN: 9781321825374Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen.
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