A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day

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A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day

Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1949) is a novel permeated with the architectural ruins of the Second World War. This article is concerned with the shock effects the war had on Bowen’s understanding of the material world and the resultant implications for the late modernist narrative strategi...

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Main Author:	Zimmerman, Emma
Format:	Article
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Ruins; Materiality; Elizabeth Bowen; Late-modernism; Wartime; Home
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36672/

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