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    Flying dangerously: Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North

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    Authors
    Darwood, Nicola
    Issue Date
    2020-12-01
    Subjects
    literature
    air travel
    modernism
    Subject Categories::Q322 English Literature by author
    Elizabeth Bowen
    
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    Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain
    Abstract
    In To the North Bowen draws on notions of restlessness, change and destruction in her desire to write about geographical place and, in so doing, clearly demonstrates her understanding of the technological advances of the age. The novel foregrounds ideas of travel – by train, car and aeroplane – as Bowen explores the world through her young protagonist, Emmeline Summers. Both the pleasure (that is, perhaps, the sense of curiosity identified by Gindin) and the inherent danger of travel are recurrent themes in To the North, echoing the Modernist desire for speed, but Bowen’s use of this motif can also be read as a metaphor for the destruction of the innocent individual in an increasingly corrupt and disconnected society where it can be more convenient to speak to others by means of a ‘speaking-tube’ (To the North 69) rather than communicating in person. This essay explores the notion of ‘flying dangerously’ in the novel, through Bowen’s representation of ‘airmindedness’ (TN 144), where travel proves to be dangerous (both morally and physically) and, ultimately, fatal on that final journey on the road ‘[t]o the North’. It focuses particularly on the role of Emmeline as a partner in the travel agency, an agency which ‘seemed to radiate speed’ (TN 144), and also provides a discussion which locates Emmeline’s work both in terms of the travel industry of the 1930s and her position as a female partner in an expanding business.
    Citation
    Darwood N (2020) 'Flying dangerously: Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North', in McCluskey M, Seaber L (ed(s).). Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain, London: Palgrave Macmillan pp.137-155.
    Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624709
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1
    Additional Links
    https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030605544
    Type
    Book chapter
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9783030605544
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1
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