Angela Carter

A Literary Life
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-58098-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 314 g

Reihe: Literary Lives

By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism. This book disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a materialist and a 'demythologiser' by placing her within the social, political and theoretical context within which she wrote. Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles as well as her novels and short stories, this study examines her engagement with topical issues such as national (particularly English) identity, class, politics and feminism, assessing the relationship between her life, her times and her art.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamble, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Is She Fact or Is She Fiction? Alienated is the Only Way to Be I'm a Sucker for the Worker Hero What Were the Sixties Really Like A Quite Different Reality My Now Stranger's Eye You Write from Your Own History Conclusion: Posthumous Fame is No Comfort at All Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

SARAH GAMBLE is Senior Lecturer in English and Gender at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. She is the author of and the editor of . In addition, she is the editor of . She has also published essays on a variety of contemporary women writers, including Pat Barker and Carol Shields.