Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK.Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English andCultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK.

• 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's‘Food Fetishes' Maria José Pires \ 7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room' Michelle Ryan-Sautour \ 8. ‘Cradling anaxe like a baby': Angela Carter's Lulu Mine Özyurt Kiliç \ Part II:Philosophies \ 9. Sex, Violence, and Ethics - Reassessing Carter's ‘Moral'Relativism Lawrence Phillips \10.Angela Carter, Naturalist Anja Müller-Wood \ 11.The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance AnnaWatz \ 12. The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical ReadingStrategies in The Passion of New Eve Kari Jegerstedt \ 13. Blending thePre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance (1966) and Love(1971) Katie Garner \ Part III: Mythologies \ 14. Genesis and Gender: The Word,the Flesh, and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf' and ‘Penetrating tothe Heart of the Forest' Hope Jennings \ 15. ‘Ambulant Fetish': The ExoticWoman in ‘Black Venus' and ‘Master' Sarah Artt \ 16. Seeing the City, Readingthe City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and the SixtiesSimon Goulding \ Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia andSurrealism in Shadow Dance Jane Hentgès \ Index

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.