THE MORAL ARGUMENT OF ELIZABETH BOWEN'S GHOST STORIES.(Critical Essay)

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature | June 22, 2000| | Copyright

BY common consent, Elizabeth Bowen was a distinguished writer of ghost stories. While fully capable of giving her readers all the usual and anticipated satisfactions of such tales, she made, and fulfilled, other, larger claims for the form. As she remarked in 1947 in a preface to Le Fanu's Uncle Silas, "Our ancestors may have had an agreeable-dreadful reflex from the idea of the Devil or a skull-headed revenant, popping in and out through a closed door: we need, to make us shiver the effluence from a damned soul" (Mulberry Tree 112). Tales of terror may always have contained ...

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