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Angela Carter
Angela Carter’s pick of Mother Goose’s feathers.‘Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories’ Observer
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Part of Virago’s Five Gold Reads: five reissues of significant titles representing fifty years of feminist publishing. Representing the 1970s, Angela Carter’s highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade…
Dr Polly Paulusma
From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter's 1960s folk singing, unknown until now, on her prose writing. Recent critical attention has focused on Carter's…
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This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.
Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as…
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This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.
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In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition, fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. This book adapts…
Edmund Gordon
Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. By the time of her tragic and untimely death at the age…
A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.
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Linden Peach
This revised new edition reviews Carter’s novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work.
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Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe’s capitals, part swan…or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel…
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An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
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* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter’s Book…
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Angela Topping
Lorna Sage
A study of the works of Angela Carter - the inventive British novelist of her generation. It argues that one key to a better understanding of Carter’s writings is the…
In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter’s brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love…
Angela Tuckett
First published in 1967, The Scottish Carter presents the history of the Scottish horse and motormen's association from 1898- 1964. In tracing how and why the Scottish union arose, the…
Alison Lee
Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts
Twaynes United States…
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S. Gamble,Sarah Gamble
In this Readers’ Guide, Sarah Gamble, herself a leading interpreter of Carter’s work, examines the critical reception of her writing, including the much-debated non-fiction text,The Sadeian Woman.
Freelance Journalist Edmund Gordon
With unprecedented access to its subject’s personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon’s biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter’s…
Lindsey Tucker
Essays address the works of novelist and journalist Angela Carter (1940-1992).
Aidan Day
This study of the work of Angela Carter deals with a range of her writings, including Shadow Dance , The Magic Toyshop , The Passion of Eve , Nights at…
S. Gamble
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…
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Heidi Yeandle
This book unearths Carter’s deconstruction of the male-dominated discipline of Western thought. By re-examining Carter’s writing with reference to the archived collection of her notes that has recently become available…
Angela Carter is known for her literary fairy tales. This is a collection of essays, fiction, personal reminiscence, and interviews from an international group of scholars, artists and novelists, investigating…
Mohammad El Sayed
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: Excellent, Cairo University, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: The…
Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into…
Covering her early poetry and journalism as well as her fictional writings, leading international scholars explore new directions in scholarship on Angela Carter.
The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion…
Dani Cavallaro
Angela Carter, a prolific author who worked in numerous genres, remains one of the most important British writers of the last century. This explores a selection of Carter’s novels and…
Annemarie Kunz
In 1967, Angela Carter published a novel about an adolescent female protagonist growing up in a patriarchal system. Published at a moment in history when significant change, not only for…
Christopher Frayling
Leading cultural historian Christopher Frayling reflects on gothic themes in literature, art and popular culture, through correspondence with Angela Carter.
Mohammad Al Sayed
The book shows that archetypes have become an essential part of existence to the degree that they govern the expectations that surround the social relationships within individual societies. This premise…
Stefania de Pascalis
Breve saggio sulla riscrittura della fiaba in chiave moderna e femminista da parte di una delle piu audaci e geniali scrittrici inglesi del ventesimo secolo, Angela Carter.
Eliza Claudia Filimon
Angela Carter’s work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical framework, complex and accurate enough to classify her work, has remained. The spectacular and…
Sarah Gamble
Sarah Gamble explores Angela Carter’s celebration of the marginal, the balance in her work between history and fantasy, fairy tale and reality, excessive desire and love and looks at how…
Anna Watz (Linkoeping University, Sweden)
Based on the author’s disseration (doctoral)–Linkeoping University, 2012.
Scott Dimovitz
Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter’s problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, this book explores the intricate connections between Carter’s private…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Angela Carter’s Erl-King, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
