Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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)Possession in The Little Stranger, Monica German (University of Westminster, UK) Interview: "I'd love to write an anti-Downton!": An Interview with Sarah Waters, Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester, UK) References Further Reading Index

Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of A. L Kennedy (Palgrave 2007) and Intention and Text (Continuum, 2008).