1. Henry James, The Aspern Papers, in The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw (London: Penguin Books, 1988 [1888]), p. 99.
2. ‘Romances of the archive’ is a term adopted from Suzanne Keen’s Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003).
3. A. S. Byatt, On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (London: Vintage, 2001), p. 11.
4. A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (London: Vintage, 1991 [1990]). This text will henceforth be referred to as Possession and all other references to it will be given parenthetically.
5. Margaret Rose, Parody: Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 237.