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Sites about Possession: A Romance

by A.S. Byatt

Two academics discover evidence that the objects of their own scholarly research may have been engaged in a passionate love affair.

Characters: Roland Michell, Randolph Henry Ash, Maud Bailey, Christabel LaMotte

Critical sites about Possession: A Romance

A.S. Byatt’s Possession

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/jwss/annotations/possession/posshome.html

This site inclues annotations for Possession: A Romance, essays about the novel, and a bibliography of suggested criticism. It also includes a short biography of A.S. Byatt and a bibliography of her works.

Contains: Content Analysis, Bibliography

Author: D. Mesher

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A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Critique of the Victorian Omission of Sexuality

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/uk/byatt/farrell4.html

This student essay hypothesizes that “one of Byatt’s projects [in Possession: A Romance] is to valorize the sexual act itself. To accomplish this, she must look outside of Victorian culture to find a way of representing the sexual act.”

Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context

Author: Timothy Farrell

From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English

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The Double Voice of Metaphor: A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_45/ai_61297797

“Even though Possession in its parodies of scholars influenced by French feminism and Lacanian psychoanalysis contains a fair amount of critique of poststructuralist and postmodern attitudes, it signals its own postmodernity through devices like fluctuating narrative perspectives, paradox, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity.”

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Heidi Hansson

From: Twentieth Century Literature Winter 1999

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The Enclosed Space in the Neo-Victorian Works of Swift, Byatt, and Carey

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/uk/byatt/cobbspace1.html

This student essay explores the gender-defined nature of “the enclosed space–a space in which one is constrained, either voluntarily or involuntarily,” in Possession: A Romance, Waterland, and Oscar and Lucinda. The separate pages of the essay are linked together at the end of each section.

Contains: Content Analysis, Character Analysis, Historical Context

Author: Marta Cobb

From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English

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Melusina: Origins of Christabel LaMotte’s “The Fairy Melusine”

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/jwss.old/possession/fr-essay.html

This essay, by a graduate student at San Jose State University, provides substantial background on the Melusine myth discussed in Possession: A Romance.

Contains: Historical Context, Bibliography

Author: Homeira Foth

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Sex, Secrets, and Foucault: Rewriting Victorian Sexuality in Waterland, Oscar and Lucinda, and Possession

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/gender/fronek1.html

This student essay explores the “non-normative sexuality” utilized in these three novels in relation to their Victorian settings and the philosophies of Michel Foucault.

Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context

Author: Jane Fronek

From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English

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Other (non-critical) sites about Possession: A Romance

Reading Group Guide: Possession

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-679-73590-9&view=rg

Discussion questions for the work.

Contains: Content Analysis

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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013