Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author of Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), Don’t Look Now (2017), and Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (2014), and editor of Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (with Richard Gehrmann, 2017). Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women’s Fiction. She has edited books and published articles on a variety of topics, including literature, popular culture, cinema, opera, religion, modernism and queer studies.

[Elizabeth Bowen: Theory,Thought and Things] will surely come to be recognized as an indispensable volume for Bowen scholars.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Thinking in/about Bowen - Jessica Gildersleeve and Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 1 How to Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric: Clothes, Style and Self in Bowen’s Short Fiction - Aimee GasstonChapter 2 Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist - Keri WalshChapter 3 Elizabeth Bowen and the Pleasure of the Text - Jessica Gildersleeve Chapter 4 Obnoxiousness and Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Adolescents - Renée C. HooglandChapter 5 Tender Ties: Elizabeth Bowen and Habit - Ulrika Maude Chapter 6 ‘One is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and the Spaces in Between - Emma Short Chapter 7 ‘How Much of Nothing There Was’: Trying (Not) to Understand Elizabeth Bowen - Damien TarnopolskyChapter 8 Bowen’s Recesses: From Realism to Inter-Objectivity - Laurie Johnson Chapter 9 ‘Some Really Raging Peculiarity’: Female Fetishism The Little Girls - Patricia Juliana Smith Chapter 10 Housekeeping and the Fiction of Subjectivity in Eva Trout - Jasmin Kelaita Chapter 11 Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone - Andrew BennettNotes on Contributors