Emilie Walezak is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lyon, France. A specialist of contemporary British literature, her work focuses on intertextuality and rewriting. She has published articles on A. S. Byatt, Jeanette Winterson and Rose Tremain.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Displacement in Rose Tremain’s first novel, Sadler’s Birthday.- 3: Female Itineraries: The Road to Empowerment in Letter to Sister Benedicta and The Cupboard.- 4: Gender Provinces: Realism and Feminism in The Swimming Pool Season.- 5: Seventeenth-Century Panorama: the Function of History in Restoration.- 6: Mindscapes as Landscapes: Journeys of the Self in Sacred Country and The Way I Found Her.- 7: Historical ‘Terrains’: Music and Silence and The Colour.- 8: Foreign Prospects and Local Entrenchments: Immigration in The Road Home and Trespass.- 9: A Picaresque Journey: Merivel. A Man of His Time.- 10: Conclusion: The Gustav Sonata.- Appendix Observations by Rose Tremain.- Bibliography.- Index

“Emilie Walezak concentrates on compiling a comprehensive and detailed introduction on the works of Rose Tremain, an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. … Walezak aims to situate Tremain in the genre of contemporary British literature by providing proof of the variety of Tremain’s work, and how that variety touches upon many major concerns of contemporary fiction.” (Katy Johnson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 49 (4), 2018)

Emilie Walezak is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lyon, France. A specialist of contemporary British literature, her work focuses on intertextuality and rewriting. She has published articles on A. S. Byatt, Jeanette Winterson and Rose Tremain.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Displacement in Rose Tremain’s first novel, Sadler’s Birthday.- 3: Female Itineraries: The Road to Empowerment in Letter to Sister Benedicta and The Cupboard.- 4: Gender Provinces: Realism and Feminism in The Swimming Pool Season.- 5: Seventeenth-Century Panorama: the Function of History in Restoration.- 6: Mindscapes as Landscapes: Journeys of the Self in Sacred Country and The Way I Found Her.- 7: Historical ‘Terrains’: Music and Silence and The Colour.- 8: Foreign Prospects and Local Entrenchments: Immigration in The Road Home and Trespass.- 9: A Picaresque Journey: Merivel. A Man of His Time.- 10: Conclusion: The Gustav Sonata.- Appendix Observations by Rose Tremain.- Bibliography.- Index

“Emilie Walezak concentrates on compiling a comprehensive and detailed introduction on the works of Rose Tremain, an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. … Walezak aims to situate Tremain in the genre of contemporary British literature by providing proof of the variety of Tremain’s work, and how that variety touches upon many major concerns of contemporary fiction.” (Katy Johnson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 49 (4), 2018)

Emilie Walezak is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lyon, France. A specialist of contemporary British literature, her work focuses on intertextuality and rewriting. She has published articles on A. S. Byatt, Jeanette Winterson and Rose Tremain.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Displacement in Rose Tremain’s first novel, Sadler’s Birthday.- 3: Female Itineraries: The Road to Empowerment in Letter to Sister Benedicta and The Cupboard.- 4: Gender Provinces: Realism and Feminism in The Swimming Pool Season.- 5: Seventeenth-Century Panorama: the Function of History in Restoration.- 6: Mindscapes as Landscapes: Journeys of the Self in Sacred Country and The Way I Found Her.- 7: Historical ‘Terrains’: Music and Silence and The Colour.- 8: Foreign Prospects and Local Entrenchments: Immigration in The Road Home and Trespass.- 9: A Picaresque Journey: Merivel. A Man of His Time.- 10: Conclusion: The Gustav Sonata.- Appendix Observations by Rose Tremain.- Bibliography.- Index

“Emilie Walezak concentrates on compiling a comprehensive and detailed introduction on the works of Rose Tremain, an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. … Walezak aims to situate Tremain in the genre of contemporary British literature by providing proof of the variety of Tremain’s work, and how that variety touches upon many major concerns of contemporary fiction.” (Katy Johnson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 49 (4), 2018)