The Genre of New-Gate Novel in the Artistic Conception of Sarah Waters

Authors

  • Olga N. Kokhan V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

Abstract

The article explores Sarah Waters ‘Neo-Victorian novels «Affinity»(1999) and «Fingersmith» (2002) as an original genre textures which include a sensational subgenre – the «Newgate» novel. The article considers the documentary evidences of the «Newgate Calendar» and its significance in the formation of a separate tradition of criminal sensational literature (plots, motives, narrative modes, etc.). The established Newgate literary canon is reproduced in Water’s novels with elements of genre self-reflection, generally characteristic for contemporary stylizations. Water’s innovation is in demonstrating her own position as a writer-historiographer, who carefully recreates the criminal world of Victorian England and configures the complex of emotional and social relations of the era in a new way.

Key words: Sarah Waters, «Newgate» novel, «Newgate Calendar», sensational crime fiction, genre self-reflection.

DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2020-3-139-150

Author Biography

Olga N. Kokhan, V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

lecturer, foreign languages department №2, Institute of Foreign Philology, lecturer, foreign languages department №2, Institute of Foreign Philology, V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal  University

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Published

2020-09-22

How to Cite

Kokhan О. Н. . (2020). The Genre of New-Gate Novel in the Artistic Conception of Sarah Waters . Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, 2020(3), 139–150. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1523

Issue

No. 3 (2020)

Section

LITERATURE STUDY

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