Abstract
This chapter argues that contemporary versions of female rogues and gender outlaws are found in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin and Frog Music, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, and Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, all of which write back to earlier versions of the female rogue and the gender outlaw. Contemporary versions of rogues and gender outlaws attempt to defy their fates in fiction. They seek to be their own mistresses, often using their creative eros to attempt to fashion themselves, both literally and figuratively, as they “perform gender.” Like the artists and writers envisioned by female neo-Victorian writers, the female rogues and gender outlaws also exercise sexual eros as they defy their fates in fiction.
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