Further problems are posed by narrative styles that treat historical subjects like the characters of a novel or film: can such works avoid anachronistically imposing a present-day sense of motivation onto figures in an alien past? In Martin Guerre, for instance, Natalie Davis highlighted not only the extraordinary imposter, Armand du Tilh, but also Bertrande de Rols, the woman who accepted Armand as her long-lost husband Martin Guerre. Davis depicted de Rols as a spirited, independent agent, a woman struggling to carve out the best possible destiny for herself in a patriarchal world. Did the evidence justify this interpretation, or was the book projecting a modern feminist sensibility onto the sixteenth century?21 Similarly, in the most controversial pages of The Unredeemed Captive, John Demos speculated as to how the young Eunice Williams might have reacted to seeing her father after many years of separation, imputing to her a sense of resentment and anger that may have reflected twentieth-century notions of parent–child relations as much as or more than the eighteenth-century sources