The Roving Eye

Laurence, Patricia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4_8

Patricia Laurence²

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This chapter focuses on Bowen’s visual imagination that led to her progressive interest in the new media that became a key part of the texture of her writing. The still shots of photography, montage of films and the shadows, dreams and collage of the new art movement of surrealism, as well as her continued interest in painting contribute to a new consciousness that informs her narrative modes.

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Notes

1.
“Elizabeth Bowen and Jocelyn Brooke.”
2.
Bowen, “Roving Eye,” MT, 63.
3.
Arnold, Mainie Jellett, 118.
4.
Bowen, “Autobiographical Note,” WWF, 267.
5.
HP, 86.
6.
Bowen, “Poetic Element,” 9.
7.
Bowen, “Autobiographical Note,” WWF, 267.
8.
Bowen, “We Write Novels,” 28.
9.
Rose Macaulay to EB, n.d. (ca. 1955), HRC 11.6.
10.
Bowen, Hotel, 86.
11.
Bowen, HD Blurb, Knopf Records, NYPL, box 102, folder 18.
12.
EB to DH, December 16, n.d., PRONI D4400/C/2/27.
13.
Bowen, “Requiescat,” CS, 45.
14.
EB to IB, August 19, 1937, BOD, MS. Berlin 245.
15.
TLG, 121, 120–122.
16.
Barthes, Pleasure of the Text: there is no “one” reading of a text but multiple readers, cultures, places, and times of reception.
17.
EB to WP, June 1, 1963, DUR 19.
18.
EB to CR, September 4, 1948, LCW, 132.
19.
Bowen, “We Write Novels,” 24.
20.
WL, 71–72.
21.
Bowen, “Summer Night,” CS, 583–608.
22.
PC, 44, 4.
23.
From a Nuffield Organization questionnaire that Bowen responded to, April 12, 1945, HL, HM 52840.
24.
At same time that Bowen bought her car, Clair Wills reports, 209 people were killed on the roads and 10,852 injured through dangerous driving. Motor offenses rivaled bicycle crimes in 1937. Wills, Neutral Ireland, 34.
25.
TN, 296–297.
26.
Bowen, “We Write Novels,” 28.
27.
TN, 306, 296, 298, 168.
28.
PC, 44.
29.
Bowen, review, April 28, 1948, WWF, 221.
30.
IGS, xiv.
31.
Bowen, “Prague and the Crisis,” PPT, 81.
32.
HP, 126.
33.
HD, 125.
34.
Owe this reference to Julia Van Haaften, author of Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision (1989), and a member of the WWWL.
35.
WP to EB, September 2, n.d. (ca. 1936), HRC 11.8.
36.
EB to HH, June 12, 1936, HHC.
37.
EB to WP, May 6, 1958, DUR 19.
38.
“An Enormous Channel of Expectation,” in PPT, 366, 368, 369.
39.
EB to CR, December 8, 1959, LCW, 351.
40.
BBC Broadcast, May 31, 1952.
41.
Bowen, “Notes on Writing a Novel,” 184.
42.
ES, xiv.
43.
FR, 49–50.
44.
FBMS, 7–8.
45.
HD, 155, 254, 9.
46.
MS of HD, HRC, MS V, 7–12; HD 106.
47.
TR, 165.
48.
EB to CR, March 27, 1953, LCW, 187.
49.
Bowen, “The Art of Bergotte,” PC, 95–96.
50.
Hone interview.
51.
Graham Greene to EB, April 13, 1938, HRC.
52.
EB to CR, January 28, 1962, LCW, 382.
53.
Ibid., September 2, 1959, 337.
54.
Maars, Eudora Welty, 284.
55.
Herpburn, LI, 135.
56.
Hepburn, Listening In, 66.
57.
Roy Forster, Modern Ireland, 168.
58.
See Gildersleeve.
59.
Proust, Swann’s Way, 59.
60.
EB to WP, June 27, 1937, DUR 19.
61.
Image emerged in Comte de Lautreamont, Les Chantes de Maldoror, 1869, a misanthropic figure of evil that inspired many surrealist artists.
62.
HP, 39; FR, 134; TN, 208, 239.
63.
Bowen, “The 1938 Academy: An Unprofessional View.” In Hepburn, PPT, 29.
64.
Halliday, “Gallery and Surrealism.” Dali Exhibit, 1934.
65.
Bowen, “Regent’s Park,” 150.
66.
Bowen, “The Disinherited,” CS 398.
67.
PC, 63.
68.
EB to HH, May 28 and June 1, 1936, HHC.
69.
EB to WP, June 27, 1937, DUR 19.
70.
“Elizabeth Bowen and Jocelyn Brooke.
71.
TN, 146, 79.
72.
Ibid., 284. Emmeline has the same glassy eyes that repulsed Bowen in dolls, separating her from this surrealist fascination, represented by Hans Bellmer.
73.
Caws, “Thinking North.”
74.
Violet Hueffer Hunt to EB, n.d. (ca. 1932), HRC 11.5.
75.
WL, 93.
76.
IGS, xiii.
77.
Bowen, “Ryder Haggard,” MT, 247.
78.
Bowen, “Mysterious Kor,” MT, 292.
79.
“Summer Night,” CS, 599.
80.
Bowen, “Summer Night,” CS, 583.
81.
PC, xiv.
82.
Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 345–346.
83.
DH, 207, 128, 81, 93.
84.
See Bennett and Royle, 77 ff.
85.
LG, 124, 93.
86.
Bennett, “House.”
87.
IGS, xiv, viii, xi.
88.
Ibid., viii.
89.
Ibid., xi.
90.
PC, 37.
91.
EB to CR, May 6, 1950, LCW, 169.
92.
EB to HH, 1936, HHC.

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Laurence, P. (2019). The Roving Eye. In: Elizabeth Bowen. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26415-4_8

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