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Angels and Insects (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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In Possession (1990), A. S. Byatt’s previous work of fiction, the late twentieth century academics Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey pursued the lives of fictional Victorian poets Randolph Ash and Christabel LaMotte. The novel’s structure allowed Byatt to re-create a nineteenth century world and to contrast that period with that of the late twentieth century. She indicated that in the Victorian era sex was more difficult but love was simpler, and that what modernity has gained in knowledge it has lost in feeling.

Angels and Insects returns to the Victorian era, but it...

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