Sarah Waters Essays
How Waters and Stoker Use Narrative Point of View in 'The Little Stranger' and 'Dracula' 12th Grade
The Little Stranger
Both Waters and Stoker use narrative point of view to enhance their novels. This is achieved by the use of striking openings, the inevitable elements of unreliable narration in both novels, and how this links to themes of uncertainty as well as...
Fear and Insanity Gothic Literature: Why 'The Haunting of Hill House' and 'The Little Stranger" Are Not Your Typical Scary Stories 11th Grade
The Little Stranger
Over the past three decades, films in the genre of horror and suspense have been among the top grossing movies with relation to volume of tickets and amount of movies made. According to a 2004 paper in the Journal of Media Psychology by Dr. Glenn...
Attraction vs. Repulsion: Faraday's Reaction to the House and the Ayres 12th Grade
The Little Stranger
Walters said of her 2009 novel The Little Stranger that it was driven by an interest in the capacity of people ‘to contain a range of emotional experience’, and this is particularly evident in her evocation of Doctor Faraday, its narrator. We see...
How ‘Fingersmith’ Engages with Debates Surrounding Pornography: Female and Queer Representation College
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters' Neo-Victorian novel ‘Fingersmith’ situates itself against a backdrop of contentious debates surrounding pornography. Second wave feminists were divided in their beliefs about whether pornography was detrimental or beneficial to...