"This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories. Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'posthuman politics', and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the twenty-first century"--
This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.
Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'posthuman politics', and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the twenty-first century.
This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British Fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.
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Addressing Angela Carters creative and critical afterlives as a continuing inspiration to contemporary writers, it examines her continuing relevance to the 21st century as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to be read through current critical and cultural theories
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: In the Company of Animals, Samantha Sweeting (Independent Scholar,
UK)
Introduction, Sarah Gamble (Swansea University, UK) and Anna Watz (Uppsala
University, Sweden)
Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies
1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carters Love and Ordinary Language
Philosophy, Maggie Tonkin (University of Adelaide, Australia)
2.. Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation: Angela Carters Posthuman
Politics, Hope Jennings (Wright State University, USA)
3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter, Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of
Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay, Michelle Ryan (Université dAngers,
France)
Section Two: Re-Visioning
4. Visuality, Gender and Power: Exploring the Female Artist-Performer in
Selected Works by Angela Carter, Caleb Ferrari (University of the West of
England, UK)
5. Shadow Dances Extreme Eclecticism Magic-Realist Painting in the
Carterian Tradition, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
6. Big Ben Had Once Again Struck Midnight: Neo-Victorian and SF
Temporalities in Angela Carters Nights at the Circus, Rosalind Crocker
(University of Sheffield, UK)
Section Three: Adaptations and Legacies
7. Our Sisters, Our Shelves: Cultural Work as Sistership Work and Fairy
God-Mother Carter, Sarah Featonby (Loughborough University, UK)
8. Hybrid Forms: Nights at the Circus and Adaptation, Frances Babbage
(University of Sheffield, UK)
9. Nothing Sacred: Angela Carters Iconoclasm, Place-Making and
Memorialization, Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England, UK) and
Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England, UK)
10. Carterian Wine in New Bottles: An Interview with Four Women Writers,
Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University, Australia), Sofia Samatar (James
Madison University, USA), Veronica Schanoes (City University of New York,
USA), Marina Warner (Birkbeck College, UK) and Cristina Bacchilega
(University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA)
Sarah Gamble is Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University, UK.
Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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