Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50607-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4401 g

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms 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 how her writings reflect the different concerns of contemporary feminist theories. In particular, the collection includes new and innovative readings of how Waters’s novels address issues of patriarchy, female confinement, madness and misogyny, exploitation and oppression, repression and subordination, abortion, marriage and spinsterhood alongside passionate portrayals of female agency, desire, aesthetics, female sexual expression, and, of course, lesbianism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Adele

O'Callaghan, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan.- Part I. Feminist Foremothers.- 1. Teasing (Out) a New Generation;Lucie Armitt.- 2. Quick and Queer; Kathryn Simpson.- 3. “Accompanied by Ghosts”; Natasha Alden.- Part II. Second Wave Hauntings.- 4. Anxious Affinities; Jessica Gildersleeve.- 5. The Feminist Gothic in The Little Stranger;Gina Wisker.- 6. The Feminist Politics of Textuality; Adele Jones.- 7. ‘Better a prison … than a madhouse!’; Mari Hughes-Edwards.- Part III.  Beyond the Second Wave.- 8. Written on the Body; Helen Davies.- 9. ‘My dress is not a yes’; Louisa Yates.- 10. ‘Grisley “L” business’; Claire O’Callaghan;- Afterword. Sarah Waters and the Future of Feminisms; Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan.

Über Autor(innen)

Adele Jones tutors in English at Swansea University, UK. Her research focuses on feminist theory (particularly psychoanalysis), space, place, gender and sexuality in contemporary literature. 

Claire O’Callaghan teaches English at Brunel University, UK, and her research focuses on gender and sexuality in contemporary literature and culture, feminist theory, and neo-Victorianism.