Gildersleeve, Jessica (2016) Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels. In: Sarah Waters and contemporary feminisms. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Basingstoke, United Kingdom, pp. 81-96. ISBN 978-1-137-50607-8
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.
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Permanent restricted access to Published version, in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Current - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2017 00:01 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2017 00:57 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sarah Waters, neo-forties, Irigaray, dereliction |
| Fields of Research : | 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/29898 |
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