Chris Waters

Standard Name: Waters, Chris

Connections

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Literary responses	Isabella Ormston Ford	More recently, Chris Waters suggested that IOF 's novel offers a vitriolic indictment of the expectations that thwarted women's ambitions, in a way that anticipates Radclyffe Hall 's novel The Unlit Lamp. Waters, Chris. “New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 25-42. 31 She...
Literary responses	Isabella Ormston Ford	More recently, this novel has been praised by critics for its depiction of both socialist and feminist ideals. According to Chris Waters , it demonstrates how socialism could benefit women and how women could transform...
Literary responses	Isabella Ormston Ford	Recent commentaries, too, have been less than favourable. Chris Waters , for instance, suggested that while the novel affords the reader a vivid portrait of working conditions and a suberb analysis of the complexities of...
Literary responses	Katharine Bruce Glasier	More recently, literary critic and historian Chris Waters has faulted the work on being silent about how socialism might influence the lives of its protagonists and ending on a pessimistic note. Waters, Chris. “New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 25-42. 33
Literary responses	Katharine Bruce Glasier	Recently, however, Chris Waters has suggested that the sentimentality was likely an intentional strategy in order to appeal to a working-class audience, who embraced the popular romance form: Aimée Furniss was, as KBG proudly claimed...
Literary responses	Katharine Bruce Glasier	Chris Waters criticizes this book for its sentimental rhetoric of social reconciliation and its limited narrative structure. Waters argues that the book does not use women's struggles for independence to foreground issues of class...

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Texts

Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.

Waters, Chris. “New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 25-42.