Ideology and History in the Contemporary British Novel
Ideology and History in the Contemporary British Novel

Summary/Abstract: The following article examines three contemporary british novels (Doris Lessing ´s The Golden Notebook, William Trevor´s The Silence in the Garden and Fay Weldon´s Praxis), concentrating mainly on the aspect of the interrelation between historiography and ideology and its aesthetic response in british novel-writing after the Second World War. The thesis of this paper is based on the assumption that the fe/male authors of the above-mentioned novels simultaneously depict and unmask indoctrinating political and religious belief systems that were of formative influence for the periods of time chosen as time frames in the novels. The central aim of the article is to show which implications the deconstruction of ideology on the textual level has on plot structure, the form and composition and the fe/male narrators of the novels.

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