Sarah Waters (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Mitchell, Kaye

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques and covered a number of important contemporary themes.

This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide range of current critical perspectives on Waters' work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in Waters' fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441127525
• Artikelnr.: 39132557

Autorenporträt

Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of A. L Kennedy (Palgrave 2007) and Intention and Text (Continuum, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Adapting Sarah Waters
Andrew Davies Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Sarah Waters' Life Introduction: The Popular and Critical Reception of Sarah Waters
Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester
UK) Chapter 1: 'Taking back the night'? Feminism in Sarah Waters' Affinity and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
Susan Alice Fischer (CUNY
USA) Chapter 2: Sexing the Labyrinth: Space and Sexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity
Rebecca Pohl (University of Manchester
UK) Chapter 3: 'You know everything. I know nothing': (Re)Reading Fingersmith's Deceptive Doubles
Sarah Gamble (Swansea University
UK) Chapter 4: 'Something new and a bit startling': Sarah Waters and the Historical Novel
Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester
UK) Chapter 5: 'Possibility
pleasure and peril': The Night Watch as a Very Literary History
Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University
UK) Chapter 6: 'What does it feel like to be an anachronism?' Time in The Night Watch
Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester
UK) Chapter 7: The Country House Revisited: Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger
Emma Parker (Leicester University
UK) Chapter 8: The Death of the Lady: Haunted Garments and (Re)Possession in The Little Stranger
Monica Germanà (University of Westminster
UK) Interview: "I'd love to write an anti-Downton!": An Interview with Sarah Waters
Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester
UK) References Further Reading Index