Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A.S. Byatt: Knitting the Net of Culture

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I. Identity......Page 18
1 Concepts of Identity in Possession and The Biographer's Tale......Page 20
2 Self and Other in Possession and The Biographer's Tale......Page 29
3 Concepts of Identity in A. S. Byatt's Tetralogy......Page 50
4 The Gendered Self......Page 55
5 Female Autonomy......Page 66
6 Reconciling Body and Mind: the 'Thinking Woman'......Page 76
II. Identity – Cultural Memory – Literature......Page 86
7 Identity and Memory......Page 88
8 Figures of Memory: Elizabeth I and Shakespeare......Page 98
9 Cultural Texts: Identity and Literature......Page 106
10 Imaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory......Page 115
11 Memorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian Age......Page 127
12 Mnemonic Spaces: Identity and Genre......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 146
Notes and References......Page 155
Bibliography and Further Reading......Page 178
B......Page 194
C......Page 195
G......Page 196
K......Page 197
O......Page 198
R......Page 199
T......Page 200
Z......Page 201