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Angela Carter / edited by Alison Easton.

By: Easton, Alison, 1943- [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: New casebooksPublication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan 2000Description: 228 p. : 22 cmISBN: 0333692160Subject(s): Carter, Angela 1940-1992 | Carter, Angela (1940-1992)DDC classification: 820.9
Contents:
Introduction: Reading Angela Carter / Alison Easton 1 -- 1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonisation of Feminine Sexuality / Merja Makinen 20 -- 2. Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason / Sally Keenan 37 -- 3. Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and 'Peter and the Wolf' / Jean Wyatt 58 -- 4. History and Women's Time: Heroes and Villains / Gerardine Meaney 84 -- 5. Anti-hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman / Sally Robinson 107 -- 6. Textualising the Double-gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve / Heather Johnson 127 -- 7. Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Mary Russo 136 -- 8. Blonde, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus' / Jill Matus 161 -- 9. Angela Carter's Fetishism / Christina Britzolakis 173 -- 10. Seriously Funny: Wise Children / Kate Webb 192.
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Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 820.9 EAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R42859F0085
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reading Angela Carter / Alison Easton 1 -- 1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonisation of Feminine Sexuality / Merja Makinen 20 -- 2. Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason / Sally Keenan 37 -- 3. Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and 'Peter and the Wolf' / Jean Wyatt 58 -- 4. History and Women's Time: Heroes and Villains / Gerardine Meaney 84 -- 5. Anti-hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman / Sally Robinson 107 -- 6. Textualising the Double-gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve / Heather Johnson 127 -- 7. Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Mary Russo 136 -- 8. Blonde, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus' / Jill Matus 161 -- 9. Angela Carter's Fetishism / Christina Britzolakis 173 -- 10. Seriously Funny: Wise Children / Kate Webb 192.

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