"My sense of my own identity is bound up with the past"

Koch, Jessica

The Quest for a Female Identity in Historical Novels by British Women Writers: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Esther Freud

dc.contributor.advisor	Glaser, Brigitte Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Koch, Jessica
dc.date.accessioned	2014-02-06T09:57:49Z
dc.date.available	2014-02-06T09:57:49Z
dc.date.issued	2014-02-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5E11-9
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4340
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4340
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subject.ddc	400	de
dc.subject.ddc	800	de
dc.title	"My sense of my own identity is bound up with the past"	de
dc.title.alternative	The Quest for a Female Identity in Historical Novels by British Women Writers: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Esther Freud	de
dc.type	doctoralThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Glaser, Brigitte Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2013-07-02
dc.description.abstracteng	For quite a long time women have been denied their rightful place in history as historiography has predominantly focused on men. To fill in this gap in historiography and shed a light on the female past, women writers have started to make use of the historical novel. This genre not only allows them to re-write history and eventually give women a voice in history, but also to examine the female quest for identity. This study hence analyses nine historical novels by contemporary British female authors (A.S. Byatt, Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, Esther Freud) which all display this connection of the female quest for history with the one for identity. The novels discussed thus display aspects of historical fiction, the Bildungsroman and also show characteristics of (auto-)biographies as well. Accordingly, this dissertation furthermore discusses the development of the historical novel and the Bildungsroman and aims to show how both genres have been brought into play by women writers and have been adapted to their specific topics.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Schaff, Barbara Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.eng	A.S.Byatt	de
dc.subject.eng	Penelope Lively	de
dc.subject.eng	Margaret Drabble	de
dc.subject.eng	Esther Freud	de
dc.subject.eng	Moon Tiger	de
dc.subject.eng	Making It Up	de
dc.subject.eng	The Peppered Moth	de
dc.subject.eng	The Red Queen	de
dc.subject.eng	The Virgin in the Garden	de
dc.subject.eng	Still Life	de
dc.subject.eng	Babel Tower	de
dc.subject.eng	A Whistling Woman	de
dc.subject.eng	Frederica Quartet	de
dc.subject.eng	Summer at Gaglow	de
dc.subject.eng	female identity	de
dc.subject.eng	historical novel	de
dc.subject.eng	Bildungsroman	de
dc.subject.eng	historiographic metafiction	de
dc.subject.eng	memory	de
dc.subject.eng	autobiography	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5E11-9-6
dc.affiliation.institute	Philosophische Fakultät	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Philologien (PPN621711713)	de
dc.identifier.ppn	77789758X

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