Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms
This book presents ten readings of Sarah Waters’s fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and gender and
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Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms
Adele Jones • Claire O’Callaghan Editors
Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms
Editors Adele Jones Swansea University Swansea, United Kingdom Claire O’Callaghan The University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom Brunel University Uxbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-50607-8 ISBN 978-1-137-50608-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50608-5
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank all of the contributors in our collection for sharing their research on Sarah Waters with us and for responding so diligently to all of our editorial queries. We also wish to thank Peter Carey and Paula Kennedy at Palgrave Macmillan for supporting our project and the anonymous reader for their kind comments and helpful insights on our proposal and the work presented here. Finally, we would like to thank Sarah Waters, her literary agents and John McSpadyen from Little, Brown Book Group for all of their help. We are very grateful for permission to use copyright material from Tipping the Velvet, ©1998 Sarah Waters; Affinity, © Sarah Waters 1999; Fingersmith, © Sarah Waters 2002; The Night Watch, © Sarah Waters 2006; The Little Stranger, © 2009 Sarah Waters.
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CONTENTS
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Sarah Waters’s Feminisms Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan
Part I 2
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Teasing (Out) a New Generation: The Writing of Sarah Waters Lucie Armitt
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Quick and Queer: Love-Life-Writing in Orlando and Affinity Kathryn Simpson
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‘Accompanied by Ghosts’: The Changing Uses of the Past in Sarah Wate
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