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Angela Carter / Linden Peach

By: Peach, Linden, 1951- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2009Edition: 2nd editionDescription: viii, 206 pages : 22 cmISBN: 9780230202832; 0230202837Subject(s): Carter, Angela. 1940-1992 | Women and literature - England - History - 20th century | Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 - Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 820.9
Contents:
Post-feminist and Euro-American Gothic: Shadow Dance (1966) -- 'Realities', Illusions and Delusions: Several Perceptions (1968) and Love (1970) -- Pain and Exclusion: The Magic Toyshop (1967) -- Symbolic Order, Myths and Transgression: Heroes and villains (1969) and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) -- Sexual Fictions: The Passion of New Eve (1977) and The Sadeian Woman (1979) -- Spectacle, Circus and the Films of Federico Fellini: Nights at the Circus (1984) -- Illegitimate Power and Theatre: Wise Children (1991) -- The Body, Illness, Ageing and Disruption: An Overview.
Summary: "This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work. There are now extended single chapters on Carter's most widely-studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, and discussion of the long essay "The Sadeian Woman.""--Provided by publisher.
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Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 820.9 CAR/PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R50225M0085
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Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and index.

Post-feminist and Euro-American Gothic: Shadow Dance (1966) -- 'Realities', Illusions and Delusions: Several Perceptions (1968) and Love (1970) -- Pain and Exclusion: The Magic Toyshop (1967) -- Symbolic Order, Myths and Transgression: Heroes and villains (1969) and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) -- Sexual Fictions: The Passion of New Eve (1977) and The Sadeian Woman (1979) -- Spectacle, Circus and the Films of Federico Fellini: Nights at the Circus (1984) -- Illegitimate Power and Theatre: Wise Children (1991) -- The Body, Illness, Ageing and Disruption: An Overview.

"This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work. There are now extended single chapters on Carter's most widely-studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, and discussion of the long essay "The Sadeian Woman.""--Provided by publisher.

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