Waterland: Literary Relations Overview

Chinua Achebe

• The Role of Childhhod
• Hysteri(a): Introduction to History in Achebe and Swift
• Historical Detection in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah
• So-Called Natural History in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah

Jane Austen

• On Partial Narration

A. S. Byatt

• Narratives of the Victorian Past: Byatt, Carey, and Swift
• The Void in Waterland and Possession
• Sex, Secrets, and Foucault: Rewriting Victorian Sexuality in Waterland, Oscar & Lucinda, and Possession: Introduction

Peter Carey

• Narratives of the Victorian Past: Byatt, Carey, and Swift
• The Void in Waterland and Possession
• Sex, Secrets, and Foucault: Rewriting Victorian Sexuality in Waterland, Oscar & Lucinda, and Possession: Introduction
• Glass and Water: Symbolic Imagery in Oscar and Lucinda and Waterland -- an Introduction
• Glass and Water, Love and Sexuality
• Glass and Water, Creation and Destruction
• Glass and Water: Progress, Power, and the Weakness of of Empire
• The Postmodern Crisis of Narrative: Byatt, Carey, and Swift

Charles Dickens

• Story-Telling in Swift and Dickens
• Narrative in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Waterland and Great Expectations as Autobiography
• The Bildungsroman Genre: Waterland and Great Expectations
• Waterland and Great Expectations: Confronting Failed Expectations
• Sexuality and Symbolism in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Eels in Waterland and Great Expectations

Buchi Emecheta

• The Role of Childhhod
• Rippling Outwards: The Uncontrolling Centrality of Childhood in Swift
• Postcolonial Accounts of Childhood and Adulthood: Emecheta, Soyinka, Swift

Philip Jeyaretnam

• Fragile Books, Fragile Selves: Past and Present in Abraham's Promise

Penelope Lively

• Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger

Salman Rushdie

• Connections Between Shame and Waterland
• Rushdie, Ishiguro, and the Art of Story-Telling
• The Conversational Narrator in Shame and Waterland
• Magic Realism and Self-Conscious Writing in Waterland and Shame
• Connections between Waterland and Shame
• Mary in Waterland and Omar in Shame : History, Humanity, and History
• The East Wind and the Loo in Waterland and Shame

Wole Soyinka

• Postcolonial Accounts of Childhood and Adulthood: Emecheta, Soyinka, Swift

Wordsworth

• Swift, Wordsworth, and the French Revolution

• The Construction of Cyclical Time in Waterland

Last modified 20 May 2004