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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen's Shorter Fiction

Dead Reckoning
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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen's Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States. Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's unpublished short stories.
Heather Levy is professor of English literature at Western Connecticut State University.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Curating Violence and Perpetrator Trauma Chapter 1 Ameliorative Suicide Chapter 2 Redemptive Murder Chapter 3 Inconclusive Mayhem Conclusion: Implicating Readers Appendix: Harry Ransom Selections Bibliography
This fascinating analysis of violence in Elizabeth Bowen's shorter fiction reveals her focus on the suffering of perpetrators, which implicates readers in suicide, murder and mayhem. With precision, clarity and wit, Levy demonstrates how Bowen's narrative strategies keep the gore offstage while scrutinizing the motives of those who commit violence. The volume includes a special pleasure for Bowen readers--seven story fragments published for the first time.--Elizabeth Lambert, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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