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Angela Carter

edited by Alison Easton

(New casebooks)

Macmillan, 2000

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Angela Carter : contemporary critical essays

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hard ISBN 9780333692158

Description

Angela Carter's writings have been a source of pleasure, puzzlement and controversy ever since she was first published in the 1960s. Until her death in 1992 she was one of Britain's most exciting contemporary authors, particularly with her fantastical fictions and her feminist political essays on sex, gender and class. This collection of literary critical studies, from the Macmillan Casebook Series, provides a selection from the many different responses which her works have evoked over the past twenty years. Together they explore most of Carter's major writings and demonstrate a variety of feminist theoretical approaches.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Reading Angela Carter
  • A. Easton.- Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality
  • M. Makinen.- Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason
  • S. Keenan.- The Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and 'Peter and the Wolf'
  • J. Wyatt.- History and Women's Time: Heroes and Villains
  • G. Meaney.- The Anti-Hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • S. Robinson.- Textualizing the Double-Gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve
  • H. Johnson.- Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
  • M. Russo.- Blond, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus'
  • J. Matus.- Angela Carter's Fetishism
  • C. Britzolakis.- Seriously Funny: Wise Children
  • K. Webb.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780333692165

Description

Angela Carter's writings have been a source of controversy since she was first published in the 1960s. Until her death in 1992 she wrote fantastical fictions and feminist political essays on sex, gender and class. This collection of literary critical studies provides a selection from the many different responses which her works have evoked. Together, they explore most of Carter's major writings and demonstrate a variety of feminist theoretical approaches.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction: Reading Angela Carter
  • A. Easton Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality
  • M. Makinen Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason
  • S. Keenan The Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and 'Peter and the Wolf'
  • J. Wyatt History and Women's Time: Heroes and Villains
  • G. Meaney The Anti-Hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • S. Robinson Textualizing the Double-Gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve
  • H. Johnson Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
  • M. Russo Blond, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus'
  • J. Matus Angela Carter's Fetishism
  • C. Britzolakis Seriously Funny: Wise Children
  • K. Webb Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA47204278
  • ISBN
    • 0333692152
    • 0333692160
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 228 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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