Examines Angela Carter’s celebration of the marginal, and how that influences both the form and content of her fiction. The text offers critical readings of Carter’s fiction and non-fiction, including The Magic Toyshop , The Passion of New Eve , The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus . It demonstrates how, throughout her career, Carter wrote to subvert consensus view of any kind - in particular, the conception of history as unalterable master narrative , conventional social codes regarding propriety and woman’s place , and the categorization of literature into high and low forms.