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TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA

Year 2019, Issue: 35, 83 - 91, 26.04.2019
https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.407636

Abstract

Sarah Waters’ first novel Tipping
the Velvet
(1998) is a neo-Victorian novel that  rewrites the Victorian era to depict the
marginalised existence of the female same-sex lovers. Since Waters
fictionalises the historical facts, her representations turn out to be the
reality of her novel in which facts and imaginary notions blurred. In this
article, Waters’ construction of an alternative lesbian history of the
Victorian period in London will be evaluated by the constructions of femininity
in the Victorian period. Then, the tendency of excluding sexuality and desire
by ignoring their existence in Victorian times will be scrutinised by showing sexual
interactions of lesbian lovers. In the novel, Waters creates a
counter-discourse of lesbians who try to become visible at the centre. By
creating different social circles and classes among queer people in Victorian
times, Waters both achieves to avoid the stereotyping the lesbians and adds a
credibility to their existence. 

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Year 2019, Issue: 35, 83 - 91, 26.04.2019
https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.407636

Abstract

References

  • Aronoff, J. (2007). "Competitive Drag Kings Strut Stuff: With some spit and polish, women perform in growing world of cross-dressing pageantry", South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Daily Gamecock, 7-29. Retrieved July 29, 2007, from http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2005/10/19/TheMix/Competitive.Drag.Kings.Strut.Stuff-1025370.shtml.
  • Butler, J. (2006). Gender Trouble: Feminism and Subversion of Identity, Routledge, New York.
  • Foucault, M. (1984) The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, (Trans: Robert Hurley), Penguin, Harmondsworth.
  • Halperin, D. M. (1994). “Historicising the Subject of Desire: Sexual Preferences and Erotic Identities in the Pseudo-Lucianic Erotes”, Foucault and the Writing of History, (Ed. David M. Halperin), Blackwell, Cambridge, pp: 19-34.
  • Hutcheon, L. (1988). A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, Routledge, New York.
  • Hutcheon, L. (1989). The Politics of Postmodernism, Routledge, New York.
  • Jeremiah, E. (2007). “'The “I” inside “her”': Queer Narration in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet and Wesley Stace's Misfortune”, Women: a Cultural Review, 18/2, pp: 131-144.
  • Gross, E. (2010). “Irigaray and Sexual Difference”, Australian Feminist Studies, ½, pp: 63-77.
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  • Rabinow, P.,ed. (1984). The Foucault Reader, Pantheon Books, New York.
  • Waters, S. (1998). Tipping the Velvet, Riverhead Books, New York.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section Articles
Authors

Ela İpek Gündüz 0000-0001-7688-8470

Publication Date April 26, 2019
Acceptance Date December 13, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2019 Issue: 35

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APA Gündüz, E. İ. (2019). TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi(35), 83-91. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.407636
AMA Gündüz Eİ. TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. PAUSBED. April 2019;(35):83-91. doi:10.30794/pausbed.407636
Chicago Gündüz, Ela İpek. “TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 35 (April 2019): 83-91. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.407636.
EndNote Gündüz Eİ (April 1, 2019) TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 35 83–91.
IEEE E. İ. Gündüz, “TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA”, PAUSBED, no. 35, pp. 83–91, April 2019, doi: 10.30794/pausbed.407636.
ISNAD Gündüz, Ela İpek. “TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 35 (April 2019), 83-91. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.407636.
JAMA Gündüz Eİ. TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. PAUSBED. 2019;:83–91.
MLA Gündüz, Ela İpek. “TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 35, 2019, pp. 83-91, doi:10.30794/pausbed.407636.
Vancouver Gündüz Eİ. TIPPING THE VELVET: SPECULARISED SEXUALITIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA. PAUSBED. 2019(35):83-91.