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9780582291911

The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780582291911

  • ISBN10:

    0582291917

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-07-10
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Introductionp. 1
Gender as performance in the fiction of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwoodp. 24
Angela Carter's fetishismp. 43
'The red dawn breaking over Clapham': Carter and the limits of artificep. 59
'But elsewhere?': the future of fantasy in Heroes and Villainsp. 73
The fragile frames of The Bloody Chamberp. 88
The infernal appetites of Angela Carterp. 100
Revenge of the living doll: Angela Carter's horror writingp. 116
Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: feminism as treasonp. 132
Sexual and textual aggression in The Sadeian Woman and The Passion of the New Evep. 149
Unexpected geometries: transgressive symbolism and the transsexual subject in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Evep. 166
Boys keep swinging: Angela Carter and the subject of menp. 184
Auto/biographical souvenirs in Nights at the Circusp. 198
Afterwordp. 216
Indexp. 221
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