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Kissing women: The fiction of Sarah Waters
No full textThe lesbian historical novel is a genre that has been consistently neglected. Reasons of censorship and lack of credibility, during an increasingly hostile Victorian era, forced lesbians into exile, denying them their subjectivity and distancing them from any notion of same sex desire. Inevitably, lives have been lost or forgotten as a consequence. Looking at three of Sarah Waters novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Fingersmith, this article intends to consider the existence of the marginalized working class lesbian. It hopes to show how a contemporary woman writer successfully exploits the unreliability of history in order to replicate a series of romantic fantasies and in so doing, it will argue that Waters’ fiction makes it possible to envisage lesbian desire beyond the limitations of heterosexual paradigms. Feminist and queer theory engagement with the texts will highlight the way Waters repossesses the desiring lesbian body, examining a series of erotic lesbian portrayals
Sarah Waters
No full textCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Waters's Gender and Sexual Politics -- 1. Female Subjects: Feminisms, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in Tipping the Velvet -- 2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity -- 3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in Fingersmith -- 4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/Affective Archives-The Night Watch -- 5. The Little Stranger-A Study of the Heteropatriarchal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination -- 6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of Gendered and Sexual Oppression in The Paying Guests -- Afterword: Telling it Straight? Waters's Afterlives on Stage and Screen -- Bibliography -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The violent pacifist: ethics and disorder in Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests
No full textSarah Waters’ The Paying Guests (2014) deals with the aftermath of the First World War and with the tumultuous social changes and cultural trauma experienced in its wake. However, its gradual slippage from the drama of global warfare to the shabbiness of domestic crime marks a broader observation about the failure of both the war and the law to deliver justice. In this post-war environment there is no longer any certainty about morality, guilt, or responsibility. ‘Being good’ and ‘doing good’, Waters’ novel shows, are no longer as synonymous as they might once have appeared
Review of 'The Night Watch' by Sarah Waters
No full textReview of Sarah Waters' novel 'The Night Watch', set in London during the 1940s
Breaking the mould : Sarah Waters and the politics of genre
No full textThis chapter looks at Sarah Waters and the politics of genr
The Life of Lesbian Portrayed in Sarah Waters’ Novel Fingersmith
No full textThis thesis entitled “The Life of lesbian Portrayed in Sarah Waters’ Novel Fingersmith”. This thesis explains about the life of lesbian and the causes of lesbianism which found in the novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Analyzing the problems of lesbian and their sexual disorder are only seen from the author’s portray in the character in this novel. The theories applied in this thesis are theory of literature by Warren and Wellek and feminism theory from Rosemarie Tong. By using descriptive qualitative by Davis and Soekanto can be seen how are the depiction of lesbian lives as the main character in this novel. This study is expected to the awareness society to love others and do not love the same sex in public live.Skripsi ini berjudul “The Life of Lesbian Portrayed in Sarah Waters Novel: Fingersmith”. Skripsi ini membahas tentang gambaran kehidupan lesbian dan penyebab-penyebab terjadinya lesbianisme yang terdapat dalam novel Fingersmith yang di tulis oleh Sarah Waters. Skripsi ini menganalisis masalah lesbian dan kelainan seksual dari pasangan lesbian dilihat hanya dari penggambaran pengarang tentang perilaku tokoh di dalam novel ini.Teori yang digunakan dalam pengerjaan skripsi ini adalah teori sosiologi sastraoleh Warren dan Wellek dan teori feminisne dari Rosmarie Tong. Dengan menggunakan metodologi kualitatif deskriptif dan teori dari Warren dan Wellek, Davis dan Soekanto, dapat diketahui bagaimana gambaran kehidupan lesbian yang merupakan tokoh utama dalam novel ini. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menyampaikan himbauan bagi masyarakat untuk hidup saling mengasihi serta untuk tidak mencintai sesamajenis di dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat.71 HalamanTesis Magiste
Appropriating, adapting and performing:new considerations of identity, genre and authorship in the Fiction of Sarah Waters
Full text linkThis thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the lesbian fiction of Sarah Waters and it will demonstrate through a series of theoretical trajectories how her work creates new historical and cultural spaces for the representation of working-class female same-sex desire. Waters’ work exposes the fissures and instability of constructed social narratives, as her stories present women who have traditionally had their meaningful place in society denied to them. In response, this thesis illustrates how Waters’ work unearths the hidden histories of lesbians and shows them as meaningful participants in society. This thesis considers how it has been difficult for contemporary lesbians to locate a sense of their subjectivity with Sapphic icons of the past. Traditional literary representations of the lesbian-figure present a spectral and waif-life form. Such ethereal manifestations have helped ensure that lesbians are denied a visible legacy within society, because in many respects they are idealised forms, which are unattainable for women from ordinary backgrounds. In other words they have become a middle-class-specific form of identification. In this regard, this thesis demonstrates how Waters uses the concept of proximity to introduce alternative ways of meaning making into the text. For example, proximity enables the reader to experience in greater depth the relationship between space and place, whereby the social position of lesbians has been used to restrict the cultural spaces lesbian lived existence has conventionally had access to. In this way, paying attention to proximity enables the reader to challenge cultural assumptions of gender. Moreover, the closeness that Waters has to her subject matter, through the author-figure, gay activist and as public intellectual means that her function in the author role brings into being a series of authenticated examples of lesbian lived existence which come about through Waters’ own intention. Waters writes from a place that feels very intuitive to her. When she writes she says it feels very instinctive. In this regard her writing houses an interiority that other writers of marginal existence exhibit. For example, this thesis sees Waters as a co-producer of knowledge and argues that Waters creates a second authorial self that provides a governing consciousness for readers of her work. Waters has a long involvement in LBGT politics and it is shown how Waters’ work is influenced by a combination of her political and public selves. In this regard, this thesis draws attention to the palimpsestic nature of her work in relation to the inner and outer spaces that it occupies. In many respects Waters’ fiction deals with the notion and concept of the queer, emptying these relative positions of their negative stereotype and showing how the term ‘queer’ has been reclaimed by gay culture. In this regard, this thesis shows how the themes and issues that emanate from Waters’ fiction can be read as a series of queerings meant to challenge and intervene in ideas of fixity. Queerness locates textual inconsistencies that are gained from the momentum of revolving and evolving interpretations. In this way, this thesis argues that Waters’ writing exposes the imbricated nature of cultural and social hegemony and releases the pleasures within the text
The shadow of the Great War in anti-"Downton Abbey" : "Paying guests" Sarah Waters
No full textArtykuł analizuje powieść jednej z najbardziej poczytnych i szanowanych pisarek brytyjskich, osadzoną w latach 20-tych ubiegłego wieku. Sarah Waters odwołuje się do modernistycznych wzorców i tworzy romans historyczny, w którym przedstawia tragiczne konsekwencje I wojny światowej. W typowy dla siebie sposób, autorka wskazuje zdemobilizowanych żołnierzy i kobiety jako 'zdradzone' przez polityków ofiary wojny.The article discusses a novel by one of the most distinguished British writers of historical fiction. Sarah Waters alludes to modernist fiction and creates a historical romance set in 1920s in which she presents the tragic consequences of the Great War. In a manner typical for her fiction the author presents the ex-servicemen and women as the victims of war 'betrayed' by politicians
The Subversion of the Victorian Woman in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to prove the subversion of the figure of the Victorian woman in Sarah Waters’ neo-Victorian novel Fingersmith. Fingersmith follows the story of two women tangled in a web of lies and manipulations that will ultimately fall in love with each other in the process. Lesbian representation in literature is especially worthy of recovering and elevating, since it is lacking as opposed to the amount of literature that the gay community can claim from the Victorian period. Following the research from different critics in the background of the Victorian era, gender roles, feminism and lesbian fiction we will analyse how Sarah Waters female protagonists fit into their theories and if they, in fact, succeed in subverting the stereotype of the Victorian woman.El objetivo de este estudio consiste en probar la subvesión de la figura de la mujer victoriana en la novela neo-Victoriana Fingersmith o Falsa Identidad de Sarah Waters. Falsa Identidad es la historia de dos mujeres envueltas en una trama de mentiras y manipulaciones que se acabarán enamorando en el proceso. La representación lésbica en la literatura es digna de ser recuperada y elevada, ya que es escasa en comparación con la cantidad de literatura victoriana que puede ser revindicada por la comunidad gay. Continuando con la investigación de diferentes críticos especializados en la era victoriana, roles de género, feminismo y literatura lésbica analizaremos cómo los personajes femeninos de Sarah Waters encajan en sus teorías y si, en realidad, la autora consigue subvertir el estereotipo de la mujer victoriana con éxito.Departamento de Filología InglesaGrado en Estudios Inglese
Queer? I should say it is criminal! : Sarah Waters’ affinity 1999
No full textAn article about Sarah Waters’ affinity 199
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