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This book provides a comprehensive reading of some of A.S. Byatt’s major novels. Focusing on memory, Renaissance forms of theatrical reinvention in post-war culture, ekphrasis, visuality, the cognitive processes of the mind, gender and science, the book retraces a network of theoretical questions illuminating the author’s fictional world from within. This study devotes special attention to the craft with which Byatt translates complex issues into imaginative fiction, engaging with Byatt’s texts. It presents a lucid and coherent account of a wide range of arguments underpinning the work of one of the most prolific and acclaimed contemporary writers.

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«With her perceptive textual analyses, and the extensive dialogue she establishes between the novels and the social, historical and cultural questions they mobilise, Cambiaghi does justice to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural aspects of Byatt’s fiction, in a volume that will no doubt become essential reading to scholars, students and perceptive Byatt fans alike.» (Barbara Franchi, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, 9 (1), 2021)

With her perceptive textual analyses, and the extensive dialogue she establishes between the novels and the social, historical and cultural questions they mobilise, Cambiaghi does justice to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural aspects of Byatt's fiction, in a volume that will no doubt become essential reading to scholars, students and perceptive Byatt fans alike. (Barbara Franchi, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, 9 (1), 2021)

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Mara Cambiaghi holds degrees in English and German literature from the University of London, Milan and Freiburg. She taught and pursued postgraduate studies in English and comparative literature at the University of Konstanz and completed her PhD at the University of Freiburg.

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