Revisiting the “Inhabited Space” of English Country House in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger

The English Country House happens to be one of the most iconic topoi in literary studies. Since narratologists have long privileged time over space, narrative space remained a relatively unexplored territory until twentieth century, which intensified interest house as thematic fulcrum works. British novelist Sarah Waters’s first venture into realm sub-genre fiction, Little Stranger (2009) is befitting discourse that appropriates poetics manorial space. Hundreds Hall, Warwickshire seat Ayreses, encapsulates many roles epicentre story and powerful symbol gradual decay aristocracy post-World War II Britain. article will try incorporate Gaston Bachelard’s spatial criticism elaborated his Poetics Space (1958) concept heterotopia by Foucault for interpretation/ (s) narrative. study seeks locate bourgeoisie points view, author subverts portraying rise proletariat. focus highlight ingenuity creative process, resorts genre fiction capture condition aristocrats crises.