Thesis Submission Date
Spring 2012
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
Craig Woelfel
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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. Paper 354.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/354