Revisionist Feminist Historiography in A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance

Abstract

A.s. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance reflects in highly influential manner the literary tradition of female writers and their predicament of being female writers, who suffer in the hand of patriarchal literary academia of Victorian period to the present day. By bringing twentieth century female scholars who visit the nineteenth century female writers, she revisits the history of female. The female characters Christabel Lamotte, Ellen Ash and Sabine de attempt their pen to write something. They revisit the epics and stories of their father since they do not have their mother poets. They are judged in terms of male standard and put them aside by the male critics. But the twentieth century female literary scholars revisit their writings and bring in public as a complete literature. Thus, the twentieth century female characters bring the literature of female writers fore after getting power in the literary sector.