Lesbian desire and mainstream media: Sarah Waters's "Tipping the velvet" on the screen
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1085
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.291
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.291
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Heiberg Madsen, LeaFecha
2010Resumen
The subversive potential and transformative strength of the neo-Victorian genre is explored and consolidated by writers such as Sarah Waters. In her debut novel Tipping the Velvet (1998) the author makes explicit what was virtually impossible to express in Victorian times, but also what is still struggling for socio-cultural recognition. However, can the TV adaptation of Waters’s lesbian Bildungsroman be said to achieve the same? This article explores the adaptation of the novel, broadcast on British television in 2002, and discusses whether or not its re-presentation of female same-sex erotics discredits the issue of lesbianism. Gracias a Sarah Waters, entre otras, la crítica especializada ha reconocido la capacidad subversiva y transformadora del fenómeno conocido como Neo-Victorianism. En la novela Tipping the Velvet (1998) la autora hace explícito lo que era imposible expresar en la época victoriana, pero también lo que todavía no ha encontrado total reconocimiento desde el punto d...
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Sarah Waters
Neo-Victorian
Female same-sex erotics
Tipping the Velvet on the screen
Novela neo-Victoriana
Erotismo
Lesbianismo
Adaptación televisiva