Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton

The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter (eBook, PDF)

Fiction, Femininity, Feminism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317887454
• Artikelnr.: 42122395

Autorenporträt

Joseph Bristow is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Trev Broughton teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Joseph Bristow and
Trev Lynn Broughton 1. Gender as Performance in the Fiction of Angela
Carter and Margaret Atwood Paulina Palmer 2. Angela Carter's Fetishism
Christina Britzolakis 3. The Red Dawn Breaking over Clapham: Carter and the
Limits of Artifice Clare Hanson 4. 'But Elsewhere?': The Future of Fantasy
in Heroes and Villains Elisabeth Mahoney 5. The Fragile Frames of The
Bloody Chamber Lucie Armitt 6. The Infernal Appetites of Angela Carter
Sarah Sceats 7. Revenge of the Living Doll: Angela Carter's Horror Writing
Gina Wisker 8. Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason
Sally Keenan 9. Sexual/Textual Aggression in The Sadeian Woman and The
Passion of New Eve Merja Makinen 10. Unexpected Geometries: Transgressive
Symbolism and the Transsexual Subject in Angela Carter's The Passion of New
Eve Heather L. Johnson 11. Boys Keep Swinging: Angela Carter and the
Subject of Men Paul Magrs 12. Auto/Biographical Souvenirs in Nights at the
Circus Sarah Bannock Afterword Elaine Jordan