Social Class and Figurative Material Imagination in Sarah Waters' Novels | 誠品線上

階級關懷與喻物想像: 莎拉．華特斯小說研究

內容簡介

內容簡介 This book explores diverse signifying processes of objects embedded with paradigmatic class discourses and various subjective situations derived from those signifying objects within social and cultural contexts in Sarah Waters’ novels. Sarah Waters, the British contemporary novelist, is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protago¬nists. Waters’ criticism on the underlying indeterminacy between class imagination and class reality constructed as the ostensible solidification of social ladders in Victorian society is pervasive and profound although her works are conventionally categorized as historical fictions or lesbian novels. Employing critical concepts concerning objects and things, this book proves Waters’ figurative particularities and heterogeneities of objects may contribute to an innovative scope of a materialisation of class and a significant influence upon contemporary material culture studies.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ya-Ju Yeh 葉雅茹Ya-Ju Yeh is Associate Professor at Department of English in Aletheia University, Taiwan.She received her Ph. D. degree at Department of English in National Chengchi University.Her current research interests are Victorian novels, contemporary English literature, and material culture studies. She has published journal papers in NTU Studies in Languages and Literature, NTU Humanitas Taiwanica, Fiction and Drama, and a number of academic journals.

產品目錄

產品目錄 Acknowledgements English Abstract Chinese Abstract chapter 1. Introduction: The Materialisation of Class chapter 2. Class Politics and Metonymic Possession in Affinity Introduction The Lady and the Inmate The Lady and the Maid Conclusion chapter 3. Class Performance and Symbolic Dresses in Fingersmith Introduction Maid Performance Mistress Performance A Contrived Performance Ever Conclusion chapter 4. Class Identity and Ironic Décor in The Little Stranger Introduction The House The Décor The Identity Conclusion chapter 5. Conclusion: Figurative Appropriation of Objects Bibliography

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最佳賣點 : 經由深入分析階級關懷與喻物想像兩者議題之間錯綜複雜的糾葛關係，檢視莎拉‧華特斯小說除歸屬歷史小說或女性同志小說次文類之外，其實隱含社會階層流動與多元物質想像的研究面向，於當代文學作品中具有極其重要深遠的價值與影響。

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