Angela Carter's Pasts: Allegories and Intertextualities

by Sarah Gamble (Editor), Anna Watz (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.

Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the essays in this collection explore a stimulating selection of topics, including folk song, medieval literature, and the occult. Frequently drawing on newly available archival material, the volume investigates the ways in which Carter wove allusions into her own narratives, creating a lively and challenging dialogue with the cultural materials of the past and present.

This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, critical theory, gender studies, and British fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350343511
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/20/2025
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Sarah Gamble is Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University, UK, where she teaches modules on women's writing and the contemporary Gothic.

Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: 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: Allegories
1. 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 Revolution
5. 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 Collisions
8. '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)