Sarah Waters and contemporary feminisms. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adele Jones, Claire O'Callaghan, editors.
• Editors: Jones, Adele; O'Callaghan, Claire
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Sarah Waters's Feminisms; 1.1 Feminist Historiography; 1.2 Contemporary Feminist Criticism; 1.3 Waters and a Tradition of Women's Writing; 1.4 The Chapters; Part I: Feminist Foremothers; Chapter 2: Teasing (Out) a New Generation: The Writing of Sarah Waters; 2.1 Women, Writing and the Canon; 2.2 Echoes and Influences; 2.3 Writing and Reading as Entrapment; 2.4 Writing the Body; 2.5 Writing and Feminism; Chapter 3: Quick and Queer: Love-Life-Writing in Orlando and Affinity; 3.1 The Victorian Zeitgeist: A Troubling Haunting 3.2 Writing Queerly3.3 Phases, Passing and Otherwise: A Queer Temporality; 3.4 Conclusion: Queer Affinities; Chapter 4: 'Accompanied by Ghosts': The Changing Uses of the Past in Sarah Waters's Lesbian Fiction; 4.1 Writing the Empty Archive; 4.2 'Not a Stage Set'35: Appropriation to Reclamation; 4.3 An Unknowable Past; Part II: Second-Wave Hauntings; Chapter 5: Anxious Affinities: Gender and Déréliction in Sarah Waters's Neo-Forties Novels; 5.1 Homeless: Women's Déréliction; 5.2 Hymns to Decay; 5.3 Women at War Chapter 6: The Feminist Gothic in The Little Stranger: Troubling Narratives of Continuity and Change6.1 Ghost Stories and the Gothic; 6.2 Faraday as Narrator; 6.3 Women and Social Limitations; 6.4 Conclusion: Waters's Feminist Gothic; Chapter 7: The Feminist Politics of Textuality: Reading the Feminism of Julia Kristeva in Fingersmith; 7.1 Texts, Intertexts, Identities; 7.2 The Semiotics of Domesticity; 7.3 Undermining the Psychoanalysis of the Mother-Child Dyad; 7.4 Writing, Reading, and Desire; 7.5 Textual Subversions; 7.6 The Intertextuality of Feminism Chapter 8: 'Better a prison … than a madhouse!': Incarceration and the Neo-Victorian Fictions of Sarah Waters8.1 Literal Incarceration; 8.2 Metaphorical Incarceration27; 8.3 Conclusion: Towards Freedom; Part III: Beyond the Second Wave; Chapter 9: Written on the Body: Wounded Men and Ugly Women in The Little Stranger; 9.1 Constructing Disability: "Plainness", Gender and Medicine; 9.2 The Ugly Uncanny: Disability, Gender, and the Grotesque; 9.3 Conclusion: The Problems of Perspective; Chapter 10: 'My Dress Is Not a Yes': Coalitions of Resistance in SlutWalk and the Fictions of Sarah Waters 10.1 Introduction: Writing as Activism10.2 Re-vising History: Writing Women's Bodies, Women's Bodies Marching; 10.3 Stunned into Silence: SlutWalk and the Voices of the Body; 10.4 Conclusion; Chapter 11: 'Grisley "L" business': Re-valuing Female Masculinity and Butch Subjectivity in Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch; 11.1 Eroticising Masculine Aesthetics in Tipping the Velvet; 11.2 'She's Such a Bloody Gentleman'33: The Night Watch; 11.3 Conclusion: Valuing Masculine Women; Afterword: Sarah Waters and the Future of Feminisms; Bridging the Divide: Feminist Pasts and Presents
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823/.914; Literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; Literature, Modern -- 21st century; Feminist theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; Feminist theory; Literature, Modern; Fiction -- General; Social Science -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; Fiction & related items; Feminism & feminist theory; Fiction; Literary studies: from c 1900; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137506085; 1137506083
• Related ISBNs: 9781137506078; 1137506075
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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