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

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

dc.contributor.advisorGlaser, Brigitte Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.authorKoch, Jessica
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-06T09:57:49Z
dc.date.available2014-02-06T09:57:49Z
dc.date.issued2014-02-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5E11-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4340
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4340
dc.language.isoengde
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subject.ddc400de
dc.subject.ddc800de
dc.title"My sense of my own identity is bound up with the past"de
dc.title.alternativeThe Quest for a Female Identity in Historical Novels by British Women Writers: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Esther Freudde
dc.typedoctoralThesisde
dc.contributor.refereeGlaser, Brigitte Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination2013-07-02
dc.description.abstractengFor 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.coRefereeSchaff, Barbara Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.engA.S.Byattde
dc.subject.engPenelope Livelyde
dc.subject.engMargaret Drabblede
dc.subject.engEsther Freudde
dc.subject.engMoon Tigerde
dc.subject.engMaking It Upde
dc.subject.engThe Peppered Mothde
dc.subject.engThe Red Queende
dc.subject.engThe Virgin in the Gardende
dc.subject.engStill Lifede
dc.subject.engBabel Towerde
dc.subject.engA Whistling Womande
dc.subject.engFrederica Quartetde
dc.subject.engSummer at Gaglowde
dc.subject.engfemale identityde
dc.subject.enghistorical novelde
dc.subject.engBildungsromande
dc.subject.enghistoriographic metafictionde
dc.subject.engmemoryde
dc.subject.engautobiographyde
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5E11-9-6
dc.affiliation.institutePhilosophische Fakultätde
dc.subject.gokfullPhilologien (PPN621711713)de
dc.identifier.ppn77789758X


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