Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
Contents
1. Time present and time past: history and the contemporary novel -- 2. Way it was: Secret of the springs: Memoirs of Hadrian -- Clio swived: The sot-weed factor -- 3. Way it will be: Terror of history: Riddley Walker -- Puritanism and patriarchy: The handmaid's tale -- 4. Turning point: Entropic stasis: The leopard -- Abreaction of the West: The white hotel -- 5. Distant mirror: Through a glass darkly: Go down, Moses -- Face to face: The name of the rose.