Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.Angela Carter: New Critical Readingsboth evaluates Carter's legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a poet and a 'naturalist'. Including coverage of Carter's earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting the canon, surrealism, and Carter's poetics.

Noteson Contributors \ 1. Introduction \ Part I: Genre and Canon \ 2. Contemporary Women's Writing: Carter'sLiterary Legacy Sonya Andermahr \ 3. ‘Isn't it every girl's dream to be marriedin white?': Angela Carter's Bridal Gothic Sarah Gamble \ 4. Between the Paws ofthe Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience Lorna Jowett \ 5. AngelaCarter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets,Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns Susanne Gruss\ 6. The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter's‘Food Fetishes' Maria José Pires \ 7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room' Michelle Ryan-Sautour \ 8. ‘Cradling anaxe like a baby': Angela Carter's Lulu Mine Özyurt Kiliç \ Part II:Philosophies \ 9. Sex, Violence, and Ethics - Reassessing Carter's ‘Moral'Relativism Lawrence Phillips \10.Angela Carter, Naturalist Anja Müller-Wood \ 11.The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance AnnaWatz \ 12. The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical ReadingStrategies in The Passion of New Eve Kari Jegerstedt \ 13. Blending thePre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance (1966) and Love(1971) Katie Garner \ Part III: Mythologies \ 14. Genesis and Gender: The Word,the Flesh, and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf' and ‘Penetrating tothe Heart of the Forest' Hope Jennings \ 15. ‘Ambulant Fetish': The ExoticWoman in ‘Black Venus' and ‘Master' Sarah Artt \ 16. Seeing the City, Readingthe City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and the SixtiesSimon Goulding \ Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia andSurrealism in Shadow Dance Jane Hentgès \ Index