Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
Book Title | Sarah Waters and contemporary feminisms |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Editors | Jones, Adele and O'Callaghan, Clare |
Page Range | 81-96 |
Chapter Number | 5 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781137506078 |
9781137506085 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137506078 |
Abstract | Waters’s recent novels , The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, express unease about a return to the social strictures of the past – a pre-war moment – and the consequent destruction of female agency in the present. The affinity between women’s writing of the 1940s and Waters’s neo-forties fiction is thus best described as a concern about the possibility of social regression, in which the rights of ‘marginalised’ groups are increasingly limited or questioned in a conservative political landscape. |
Keywords | Sarah Waters, neo-forties, Irigaray, dereliction |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470504. British and Irish literature |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3q2w/anxious-affinities-gender-and-dereliction-in-sarah-waters-s-neo-forties-novels
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