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Addressed to You: Nonhuman Missives from Elizabeth Bowen's A World of Love
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 3, September 2017
- pp. 175-189
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a668732
- Article
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Abstract:
Elizabeth Bowen's 1955 novel A World of Love arrives in our hands today like a letter from the past, insisting that we recognize the nonhuman forces at work in every act of writing and reading—as well as the ethical injunction such an apprehension engenders.