Angela Carter

ISBN-13: 9780230202832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Linden Peach

Opis

This revised new edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work. There is now extended discussion of Carter's most widely-studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, and discussion of the long essay The Sadeian Woman.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Postfeminist and Euro-American Gothic: Shadow Dance (1966).- 'Realities'. Illusions and Delusions: Several Perceptions (1968) and Love (1970).- Pain and Exclusion: The Magic Toyshop (1967).- Symbolic Order and Transgression: Heroes and Villains (1969) and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972).- Sexual Fictions: The Passion of New Eve (1977) and The Sadeian Woman (1979).- Spectal, Circus and Fellini: Nights at the Circus (1984).- Illegitimate Power and Theatre: Wise Children (1991).- The Body, Illness, Ageing and Disruption: An Overview.- Afterword.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

LINDEN PEACH is Professor of English at Edge Hill University, UK, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University, UK. His previous publications include books on Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Crime Fiction, and contemporary Irish and Welsh fiction.