O’Callaghan convincingly argues, “Waters cannot be pigeonholed easily within any singular tradition or literary genre,” and she sees her instead as “both a lesbian, feminist and queer contemporary author” (11). While there have been a number of scholarly books and articles that attempt to theorize the way Waters engages with feminist or queer theories in her fictions, O’Callaghan rightly points to the tendency of exclusive focus on either feminist or queer reading of them. In Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics, the first comprehensive study of Waters by a single author, Claire O’Callaghan untangles a complex web of theoretical concepts on which each of Waters’s novels draws. As Lucie Armitt notes, Waters “lay out before us in fictional form the pre-existing theoretical concepts for which she knows we are searching” (30). A wide range of feminist and queer theories are at work in Sarah Waters’s novels.
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