![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novels show how notions of ‘deviance’13 were constructed at a sociocultural level moreover, her works encourage audiences to analyse and resignify those acts and behaviours that were perceived to be deviant as bold, radical transgressions. My contention is that in this novel Waters ‘appropriates’ the Victorian literary (sub)genres of the Bildungsroman and the picaresque novel to subversively recast the gender and sexual stereotypes on which those narrative forms are traditionally founded. In this article I this article examines the complex relation between “hybridisation and appropriation” in Waters’s first novel, Tipping the Velvet, whose formal and thematic structure is marked by a tension between originality and adherence to tradition. ![]()
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