SARAH WATERS AND VICTORIAN CANON
Journal: Practices & Interpretations A Journal of Philology Teaching and Cultural Studies
Year: 2022

The article examines the specifics of the work of the modern British writer Sarah Waters with Victorian canon. The author’s forms of interaction with the Victorian text are investigated with references to the author’s revisionist stand of a professional historian, to her creative reflection on Victorian canon in the spirit of the historiographical novel, and interest in popular genres of Victorian era (Dickens’ socio-psychological novel, sensational novel, publications in the popular magazine “A