A. S. Byatt's Possession -- Literary Relations: Sources, Influences, Analogues, Intertextuality

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Byatt and the Victorians

• Manufactured Intertextuality in Possession
• Charlotte Brontë
• Angel and Demon: Female Selfhood and the Male Gaze in Byatt and Brontë
• "An Empty Clean Bed:" Whiteness, Desire and Fear in Possession, Jane Eyre, and Great Expectations
• Differing Views of Masculinity in Victorian and Modern Texts -- Brontë, Browning, Byatt, Carlyle, and Wolfe
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Possession and E. B. Browning's Aurora Leigh
• Robert Browning
• Byatt on Robert Browning
• Thomas Carlyle
• Christina Rossetti
• Emily Dickinson
• John Ruskin
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Possession and the Lady of Shalott
• Cropper and the Yew: Liminality and Intertextuality as Functions of the Nonlinear Narrative in A.S. Byatt's Possession (In Memoriam)

Byatt and her contemporaries

• Byatt and Postmodernism
• The Postmodern Crisis of Narrative: Byatt, Carey, and Swift
• The Enclosed Space in the Neo-Victorian Works of Swift, Byatt, and Carey
• The Fallen Nature of Narrative and Knowledge -- Fragmentation and and Filling the Void in Possession, Oscar and Lucinda, and Waterland
• Narratives of the Victorian Past: Byatt, Carey, and Swift
• Sex, Secrets, and Foucault: Rewriting Victorian Sexuality in Waterland, Oscar & Lucinda, and Possession: Introduction
• Neil LaBute's Possession of A.S. Byatt's Romance: The American Connection: A Review of the Film Adaptation

Last modified: 18 May 2004