A. Bennett & N. Royle 
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel [PDF ebook] 
Still Lives

Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen’s work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory — and of the novel itself.