Historical Themes and Contexts in the work of Graham Swift

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French Revolution

• Graham Swift, William Wordsworth, and the French Revolution

Victorian England

• The Atkinson Brewery as an Emblem of History and Historicity

World War I

• World Wars and Waterland
• The Impact of World War I: A Context of Graham Swift's Waterland
• The Decline of Great Britain

1939-1979

• The Contemporary Context
• Waterland and Nuclear War
• The Contemporary Context of Swift's Story for England

Theories of History

• The Works of Graham Swift -- Progression and Evolution
• The Circle of History
• Dick's Acquisition of History in Waterland
• Eels in History
• History, His story, and stories in Waterland
• History in Waterland
• History and Curiosity in Waterland
• History Resisted in Waterland
• The Movement of History in Waterland
• Philosophies of History in Waterland
• Nature's Domination over Man
• Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger and Waterland

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