Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms

1. Sarah Waters’s Feminisms
Adele Jones, Claire O’Callaghan

Part I. Feminist Foremothers

2. Teasing (Out) a New Generation: The Writing of Sarah Waters
Lucie Armitt

3. Quick and Queer: Love-Life-Writing in Orlando and Affinity

Kathryn Simpson

4. ‘Accompanied by Ghosts’: The Changing Uses of the Past in Sarah Waters’s Lesbian Fiction
Natasha Alden

Part II. Second-Wave Hauntings

5. Anxious Affinities: Gender and Déréliction in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Forties Novels
Jessica Gildersleeve

6. The Feminist Gothic in The Little Stranger: Troubling Narratives of Continuity and Change
Gina Wisker

7. The Feminist Politics of Textuality: Reading the Feminism of Julia Kristeva in Fingersmith

Adele Jones

8. ‘Better a prison … than a madhouse!’: Incarceration and the Neo-Victorian Fictions of Sarah Waters
Mari Hughes-Edwards

Part III. Beyond the Second Wave

9. Written on the Body: Wounded Men and Ugly Women in The Little Stranger

Helen Davies

10. ‘My Dress Is Not a Yes’: Coalitions of Resistance in SlutWalk and the Fictions of Sarah Waters
Louisa Yates

11. ‘Grisley “L” business’: Re-valuing Female Masculinity and Butch Subjectivity in Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch

Claire O’Callaghan

Nyckelord: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Feminism