Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

✍ Scribed by Sonya Andermahr; Lawrence Phillips (editors)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Readings both 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
New Critical Readings
Genre and the Canon
Philosophies
Mythologies
Works Cited
Part One: Genre and the Canon
Chapter 2: Contemporary Women’s Writing: Carter’s Literary Legacy
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 3:‘Isn’t it Every Girl’s Dream to be Married in White?’: Angela Carter’s Bridal Gothic
Works Cited
Chapter 4:Between the Paws of the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 5:Angela Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams and Jacobean Westerns
Hyperbolic Psychoanalysis: ‘The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’
Soggy Fairies: ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
From the Margins of the Canon: ‘John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore’
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 6:The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter’s ‘Food Fetishes’1
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 7: The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter’s ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room’
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 8:‘Cradling an Axe Like a Baby’: Angela Carter’s Lulu
Mine Özyurt Kılıç
Notes
Works Cited
Part Two: Philosophies
Chapter 9: Sex, Violence and Ethics – Reassessing Carter’s ‘Moral’ Relativism
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Angela Carter, Naturalist
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 11: The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance
Uncanny Returns
Sexual/Textual Violence
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 12: The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve
Allegorically Speaking
‘What if Woman Really was a Castrated Man?’
Violent Games
Tracing Male Desire
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Blending the Pre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter’s Shadow Dance (1966) and Love (1971)
Shadow Dance and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic
Love and John Everett Millais
Towards a Surrealist Ophelia
Works Cited
Part Three: Mythologies
Chapter 14: Genesis and Gender: The Word, the Flesh and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and ‘Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest’
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 15: ‘Ambulant Fetish’: The Exotic Woman in ‘Black Venus’ and ‘Master’
Exotic Dancer
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Seeing the City, Reading the City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop and the Sixties
Works Cited
Chapter 17: Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia and Surrealism in Shadow Dance
Playing with Neurotic Symptoms and Schizophrenia
Through the Looking Glass: A Surrealist Dream World
Notes
Works Cited
Index