Waterland: Themes Overview

General

• Waterland: An Introduction

Time and History

• History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland
• The March of History: Advances, Retreats and Returns in Graham Swift's Waterland
• Before Time, After History: Ruminations in Graham Swift's Waterland
• Once Upon a Time: The Presence of the Past in Waterland
• The Construction of Cyclical Time in Waterland
• The Here and Now and Everything Else in Waterland
• History is a Yarn: History and Storytelling in Waterland
• The Ouse and the passage of Time and History

Childhood

• Childhood as the History of Self in Waterland
• The Role of Childhhod
• Rippling Outwards: The Uncontrolling Centrality of Childhood in Swift

Sexuality

• Sex, Secrets, and Foucault: Rewriting Victorian Sexuality in Waterland, Oscar & Lucinda, and Possession: Introduction
• Sexuality and Symbolism in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Curiosity, Sexuality and Death
• The Character of Mary: Sexuality and History: Opposing Forces?
• Crick Raises Questions of Objectivity, Superstition, and Sexuality

Water, the Fens, and Reclamation

• Beer and Water
• The Fens in Waterland
• Reclaiming Family Values
• Curiosity, Science, and Eels
• Water Imagery and Water-People in Waterland

Miscellaneous

Last modified 20 May 2004