‘We’re going north’: Motion and Destination in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North

This paper examines Elizabeth Bowen’s textual development of the ‘north’ in her 1935 novel To the North. I begin by delineating the historical, cultural and literary perceptions of ‘northerness’ in Western imagination to highlight the meanings implicated in Bowen’s use of the north as a metaphor for...

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