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Reproduction; or, Legacy

Focusing on The Heat of the Day (1948), A World of Love (1955) and Eva Trout (1969), the chapter argues that, under a specific combination of personal and historical pressures, Bowen’s sanguine analysis of mature sexuality is overborne by a constellation of anxieties about reproductive capacity in her own family and in the Anglo-Irish as a class. The chapter shows how Bowen’s imagination at mid-century takes shape from its historical context, referencing in particular the decline of British global power and the consolidation of a new American world order in the decades after the Second World War.