Angela Carter : a literary life
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Angela Carter : a literary life
（Macmillan literary lives）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- : pbk
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Originally published: 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism. This book disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a materialist and a 'demythologiser' by placing her within the social, political and theoretical context within which she wrote. Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles as well as her novels and short stories, this study examines her engagement with topical issues such as national (particularly English) identity, class, politics and feminism, assessing the relationship between her life, her times and her art.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Is She Fact or Is She Fiction? Alienated is the Only Way to Be I'm a Sucker for the Worker Hero What Were the Sixties Really Like A Quite Different Reality My Now Stranger's Eye You Write from Your Own History Conclusion: Posthumous Fame is No Comfort at All Notes Bibliography Index
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