| Description |
1 online resource (430 pages) |
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Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature |
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Longman studies in twentieth-century literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Gender as performance in the fiction of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood; 2. Angela Carter's fetishism; 3. 'The red dawn breaking over Clapham': Carter and the limits of artifice; 4. 'But elsewhere?': the future of fantasy in Heroes and Villains; 5. The fragile frames of The Bloody Chamber; 6. The infernal appetites of Angela Carter; 7. Revenge of the living doll: Angela Carter's horror writing |
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8. Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: feminism as treason9. Sexual and textual aggression in The Sadeian Woman and The Passion of New Eve; 10. Unexpected geometries: transgressive symbolism and the transsexual subject in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve; 11. Boys keep swinging: Angela Carter and the subject of men; 12. Auto/biographical souvenirs in Nights at the Circus; Afterword; Index |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 fast |
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Femininity in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Desire in literature
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Femininity in literature
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Feminism and literature
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Psychological fiction, English
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Women and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bristow, Joseph
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Broughton, Trev Lynn, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9781317887454 |
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131788745X |
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9781317887447 |
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1317887441 |
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9781315841960 |
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1315841967 |
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9781317887430 |
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1317887433 |
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9781138152700 |
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1138152706 |
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0582291925 |
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0582291917 |
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9780582291928 |
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9780582291911 |
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