Elizabeth Bowen’s Psychoanalytic Fiction

Victoria Coulson is Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York. She is the author of Henry James, Women and Realism (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Vision, Skin, Mind: Interventions in Critical and Psychoanalytic Theory (forthcoming).

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Coulson’s readings are radical and idiosyncratic, while simultaneously traditionally psychoanalytical, a fascinatingly appropriate paradox for analysing the paradoxical, idiosyncratic Bowen.