![]() ![]() This article first dwells on ocular centrism before dealing with all the reversals and tiltings progressively coming up to the surface, as well as with genderless metonymic substitutes acting on behalf of the spirits. A liberating emancipation is finally completed. ![]() ![]() The spirits’ genderlessness can then deploy unencumbered. The publication of her first three novels, Tipping the Velvet (1998) Affinity (1999) and Fingersmith (2002), classified Sarah Waters as a neo-Victorian. This twisting manoeuvre can be read as an attempt to outroot and erase previously assimilated societal constructs. It is the authors second novel, following her debut Tipping the Velvet. It first mesmerises the spiritualists-to-be before catapulting them into a maelstrom of reversals and distortions. Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. It all occurs via ocular centrism, embodied by a powerful Gaze, slithering throughout the plot. In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of Londons Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry. Affinity by Sarah Waters tells the story of sexless and genderless spirits (and of their human bodily forms, the spiritualists) slowly taking possession of one woman, Margaret Prior, who actually, unknowingly, shelters inner predispositions to spiritualism prior to the spirits’ intervention, giving thus credit to what her surname had proleptically heralded from the very start. ![]()
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