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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
New Critical Readings
Genre and the Canon
Philosophies
Mythologies
Works Cited
Part One Genre and the Canon
2 Contemporary Women’s Writing: Carter’s Literary Legacy
Notes
Works Cited
3 ‘Isn’t it Every Girl’s Dream to be Married in White?’: Angela Carter’s Bridal Gothic
Works Cited
4 Between the Paws of the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience
Notes
Works Cited
5 Angela Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams and Jacobean Westerns
Hyperbolic Psychoanalysis: ‘The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’
Soggy Fairies: ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
From the Margins of the Canon: ‘John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore’
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
6 The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter’s ‘Food Fetishes’
Notes
Works Cited
7 The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter’s ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room’
Notes
Works Cited
8 ‘Cradling an Axe Like a Baby’: Angela Carter’s Lulu
Notes
Works Cited
Part Two Philosophies
9 Sex, Violence and Ethics – Reassessing Carter’s ‘Moral’ Relativism
Works Cited
10 Angela Carter, Naturalist
Note
Works Cited
11 The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance
Uncanny Returns
Sexual/Textual Violence
Notes
Works Cited
12 The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve
Allegorically Speaking
‘What if Woman Really was a Castrated Man?’
Violent Games
Tracing Male Desire
Notes
Works Cited
13 Blending the Pre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter’s Shadow Dance (1966) and Love (1971)
Shadow Dance and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic
Love and John Everett Millais
Towards a Surrealist Ophelia
Works Cited
Part Three Mythologies
14 Genesis and Gender: The Word, the Flesh and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and ‘Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest’
Notes
Works Cited
15 ‘Ambulant Fetish’: The Exotic Woman in ‘Black Venus’ and ‘Master’
Exotic Dancer
Notes
Works Cited
16 Seeing the City, Reading the City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop and the Sixties
Works Cited
17 Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia and Surrealism in Shadow Dance
Playing with Neurotic Symptoms and Schizophrenia
Through the Looking Glass: A Surrealist Dream World
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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