Sarah Gamble is Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University UK.Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForeword: Memoir in the Shape of a Moment, Rikki Ducornet (Independent Scholar, USA)Introduction, Sarah Gamble (Swansea University, UK) and Anna Watz (Uppsala University, Sweden)Section One: Allegories1. Angela Carter’s Medieval Studies, Katie Garner (University of St Andrews, UK)2. Exploring the Fatal Flower Garden: Angela Carter’s Writing of the 1960s, Sarah Gamble (Swansea University, UK)3. ‘beloved, cruel, unkind’: Folk Songs and Sibling Incest in Angela Carter’s Writing, Polly Paulusma (Independent Scholar, USA)4. ‘We teach – no, we make allegories, in the deepest sense’: Allegorical Writing, Reading and Violence in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and The Passion of New Eve, Marie Emilie Walz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)Section Two: Violence and Revolution5. Angela Carter and New American Spiritual Apocalypse, Scott Dimovitz (Regis University, USA)6. Underneath a Mishima-esque Mask: Angela Carter’s Post-humanism and Postwar Japan’s Empty Power, Natsumi Ikoma (International Christian University, Japan)7. ‘Manifesto for Year One’: Revolt as Metaphysical Principle, Anna Watz (Uppsala University, Sweden)Section Three: Contrarieties and Collisions8. ‘Versed in esoteric law and the magic arts’: Angela Carter’s Writing and the Supernatural, Miriam Wallraven (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)9. Violence and Desire from the Renaissance Stage to the Wild West: Angela Carter and the Two John Fords’, Robert Duggan (University of Central Lancashire, UK)10. Angela Carter’s Tribute to Colette: From the Innocent Libertine to The Bloody Chamber and Beyond, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)11.The Firbankian Carter: the Making of A Self-Made Man, Dickon Edwards (Independent Scholar, UK)

In its presentation of Carter’s work across forms, genres, and periods of her career, Angela Carter’s Pasts: Allegories and Intertextualities offers readers a complex overview of the way Carter deliberately positions herself both alongside and against the preceding centuries of literary history. As such, it is a valuable source for researchers focusing on Carter or those curious about how English literature of the twentieth century conceived of its relationship to what came before.