'Could not want a lover … more than freedom'
Failing in Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Fingersmith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21877137 |
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| Authors | Joshua Adair (Murray State University, corresponding author), Joshua G Adair |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-66 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Excursions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-494X • E-ISSN: 2044-4095 |
| Publisher | University of Sussex (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20919/exs.7.2017.220 |
| OpenAlex | W3010593826 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Using J. Jack Halberstam's theories of queer failure, this essay examines Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian novels Affinity and Fingersmith. The author argues that we must read Waters’s novels as narratives of queer failure, rich with negative potential for scuttling normativity and dismantling schemas of queer progress, while resisting the temptation to insert narratives of progress or positivity
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Temptation · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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