Identity and cultural memory in the fiction of A.S. Byatt
Subtitle: knitting the net of culture
By: Lena Steveker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230575332
Description: "This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Identity; title: Concepts of identity in Possession and The biographer's tale; title: Self and other in Possession and The biographer's tale; title: Concepts of identity in A.S. Byatt's tetraology; title: The gendered self; title: Female autonomy; title: Reconciling body and mind : the 'thinking woman'; title: II. Identiry; title: cultural memory; title: literature; title: Identiry and memory; title: Figures of memory : Elizabeth I and Shakespeare; title: Cultural texts : identity and literature; title: Imaginary museums : intertextuality and cultural memory; title: Memorial novels : the English renaissance and the Victorian age; title: Mnemonic spaces : identity and genre.