Alterations and Adaptations of the Past: Sarah Waters & Michel Faber

dc.contributor.advisor	Wilbers, U.M.
dc.contributor.advisor	Louttit, C.J.J.
dc.contributor.author	Hobbelen, P
dc.date.issued	2016-08-15
dc.description.abstract	This thesis reads and analyses Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2003) in the light of its portrayals of contemporary anxieties. A specific 21st century anxiety which is discussed is the lack of LGBT+ representation in the past, which leads to confusion within individuals and invalidation through heteronormative society. Another is the unequal treatment of women in a contemporary, nearly classless society, which traces its origins in the class-dependent treatment of women in Victorian society. This thesis relates the notion of ‘queering history’ and unconventional gender roles of the 21st century and how they are imposed onto aforementioned novels. The historical alterations in these novels can be seen as projections of contemporary anxieties onto the past, and these rewritings are used in order to revalidate from the past and cope with the aftermath.	en_US
dc.file.source	599eeddfda788-thesis voor aanvragen.pdf	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/4767
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Engelse taal en cultuur	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuur	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Bachelor	en_US
dc.title	Alterations and Adaptations of the Past: Sarah Waters & Michel Faber	en_US

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