Angela Carter New Critical Readings [Hardcover]

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.

Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK.

Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and
Cultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK.

Ultimately, the collection is a significant contribution to a growing body of Carter scholarship, which will redirect readers' thinking about this extraordinary writer.Summing Up:Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers and writers alike. D.W. Madden, California State University, Sacramento

Covering her early poetry and journalism as well as her fictional writings, leading international scholars explore new directions in scholarship on Angela Carter.

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'sFood Fetishes' Maria Jos? Pires \ 7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter'sAlice il£%