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Angela Carter

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Linden Peach
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Novelists Series (PMN)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 1-25

  3. Euro-American Gothic and the 1960s

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 26-70

  4. Pain and Exclusion

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 71-98

  5. The Last Days

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 99-130

  6. Illegitimate Power, Carnival and Theatre

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 131-158

  7. Postscript

    • Linden Peach
    Pages 159-170

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 171-183
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About this book

At the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had become one of the most important and widely read British writers. In the first book-length study devoted to her novels, Linden Peach demonstrates how Carter's fiction has retained the power to shock us, move us and make us laugh. This lively book provides both close readings of individual texts and an overview of her work. Although Carter preferred a mode of writing closer to fantasy than the English realist novel and frequently drew on prenovelistic forms, Linden Peach maintains that she still addressed the 'actuality' of people's lives. In novels crammed with themes, ideas and images, Carter is seen as blurring the boundaries between literature, philosophy and cultural critique.

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