Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

1. Introduction
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Part I. Identity

2. Concepts of Identity in Possession and The Biographer’s Tale
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3. Self and Other in Possession and The Biographer’s Tale
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4. Concepts of Identity in A. S. Byatt’s Tetralogy
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5. The Gendered Self
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6. Female Autonomy
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7. Reconciling Body and Mind: the ‘Thinking Woman’
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Part II. Identity — Cultural Memory — Literature

8. Identity and Memory
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9. Figures of Memory: Elizabeth I and Shakespeare
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10. Cultural Texts: Identity and Literature
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11. Imaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory
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12. Memorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian Age
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13. Mnemonic Spaces: Identity and Genre
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14. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction