Sexsation and the Neo-New Woman in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002)

Marie-Luise Kohlke’s concept of neo-Victorian ‘sexsation’ characterises the project of contemporary novelist Sarah Waters to explore sensational representations of the Victorians’ sexual lives. In Fingersmith, Waters re-imagines patriarchal Victorian pornography rife with masculine stereotypes of ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lilia Louati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2022-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/11819