On Histories and Stories
In her powerful opening essays - ''Fathers'', ''Forefathers'' and ''Ancestors'' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new ''Darwinian novel''.
These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Bu...
In her powerful opening essays - ''Fathers'', ''Forefathers'' and ''Ancestors'' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new ''Darwinian novel''.
These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Bu...
