In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves. View recommended reading for this articleĨ699 Waterland 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic.First published 16 August 2004 last revised. The essay analyses Graham Swift’s Waterland and shows that history and identity are subject to a process of reconstruction within stories which evince their author’s power to build on the past. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. By dramatizing the process of engineering in the reclamation of water and the expansion of a business empire, Swift demonstrates that the Atkinsons were motivated by the pursuit of efficient outcomes rather than the quest for vulgar profit. Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing
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