![]() ![]() Martin Paul Eve, “You will see the logic of the design of this”: From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity, Neo-Victorian Studies, 6:1 (August 2013), pp. As Miss Prior makes her visits, she becomes aware of a beautiful, young mystic. ![]() In this novel, Margaret Prior begins visiting the female prisoners at Millbank prison in an attempt to help her overcome the depression that led to a suicide attempt the year before. Ultimately, this article asks whether Waters’s novel can, itself, be considered as a text that disciplines its own academic study in the way that it suggests that the academy has become, once more, blind to class. Affinity is the second novel by English writer, Sarah Waters. ![]() This reading exposes Waters’s continuing preoccupation with the academy but also situates her writing within a broader spectrum of fiction that foregrounds genre as a central concern. ![]() This article suggests that genre play and a meta-generic mode, dubbed taxonomography, might be a further helpful description for the mechanism through which Waters’s novel effects its twists and pre-empts the expectations of an academic discourse community. Affinity Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed “new(meta)realism”, a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form. Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters’s Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, M.-L. ![]()
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