Rose Tremain: A Critical Introduction

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