A selective list of literary criticism for the British novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Bidney, Martin. "Nostalgic narcissism in comic and tragic perspectives: Elizabeth Bowen's two fictional reworkings of a Tennyson lyric." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996
Calder, Robert L. "A more sinister troth": Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover" as allegory. Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1994
Coates, John. The Moral Argument of Elizabeth Bowen's Ghost Stories. [The Shadowy Third; The Apple Tree; The Demon Lover]. Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 22-JUN-00
Gonzalez, Alexander G. Elizabeth Bowen's "Her Table Spread": A Joycean Irish story. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1993
Hopkins, Chris. Elizabeth Bowen. Hopkins notes that Elizabeth Bowen "has been seen (quite correctly in each case) as an Anglo-Irish writer, an English realist, a writer of comedy of manners, a European modernist, and a novelist of sensibility, as well as drawing on the thriller and the romance." Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer, 2001.
Kelly, Marian. "The power of the past: structural nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris and The Little Girls." Style, Spring, 2002.
Miller, Kristine A. "Even a Shelter's Not Safe": The Blitz on Homes in Elizabeth Bowen's Wartime Writing. Twentieth Century Literature, Jan, 1999
Rau, Petra. Introduction to Elizabeth Bowen from the Literary Encyclopedia, 11/17/02.
Reed, Toni. Summary of critical interpretations of Bowen's "The Demon-Lover." In Demon-lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1988). Preview at Google Books.
Rubens, Robert. "Elizabeth Bowen: a woman of wisdom." Contemporary Review, June, 1996.
Thompson, Terry W. "The Demon Lover": Elizabeth Bowen's "Unashamed Retelling" of "The Jolly Corner" [sources in Henry James]. South Carolina Review 39.1
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