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Zusatztext With a foreword by Andrew Davies, a useful assessment of Waters' popular and critical reception to date, and an interview with the author herself, this volume is a timely addition to the growing body of criticism on the award-winning author Informationen zum Autor KAYE MITCHELL is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview with the author. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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)Posse...
