Graduation Year
Spring 2012
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
Craig Woelfel
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© 2012 Mika Kasuga
Abstract
This thesis seeks to explain Elizabeth Bowen's preoccupation with social outcasts in her novels and ghosts in her short stories through her conception of space. Because psycho-emotional boundaries possess such overwhelming importance in her fiction, the transgression of these boundaries constitutes a threat to the dominant social order, and Bowen's plots revolve around the consequences of this. As a result, ghosts and innocents are manifestations of the same force within Bowen's writing, but which she simply indulged in different forms.
Recommended Citation
Kasuga, Mika, "Unwitting Violations: The Threat of Innocence in Elizabeth Bowen's Novels and Short Stories" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. 354.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/354
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
