Angela Carter's Futures
Representations, Adaptations and Legacies
Published on 20. February 2025
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-350-34357-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.
Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'post-human politics', magic realism and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the 21st century.
This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.
Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'post-human politics', magic realism and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the 21st century.
This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-34357-3 (9781350343573)
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Persons
Sarah Gamble is Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University, UK.
Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Content
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: In the Company of Animals, Samantha Sweeting (Independent Scholar, UK)
Introduction, Sarah Gamble (Swansea University, UK) and Anna Watz (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies
1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carter's Love and Ordinary Language Philosophy, Maggie Tonkin (University of Adelaide, Australia)
2.. 'Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation': Angela Carter's Posthuman Politics, Hope Jennings (Wright State University, USA)
3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter, Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay, Michelle Ryan (Universite d'Angers, France)
Section Two: Re-Visioning
4. Visuality, Gender and Power: Exploring the Female Artist-Performer in Selected Works by Angela Carter, Caleb Ferrari (University of the West of England, UK)
5. Shadow Dance's 'Extreme Eclecticism' - Magic-Realist Painting in the Carterian Tradition, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
6. 'Big Ben Had Once Again Struck Midnight': Neo-Victorian and SF Temporalities in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, Rosalind Crocker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Section Three: Adaptations and Legacies
7. Our Sisters, Our Shelves: Cultural Work as Sistership Work and 'Fairy God-Mother' Carter, Sarah Featonby (Loughborough University, UK)
8. Hybrid Forms: Nights at the Circus and Adaptation, Frances Babbage (University of Sheffield, UK)
9. 'Nothing Sacred': Angela Carter's Iconoclasm, Place-Making and Memorialization, Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England, UK) and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England, UK)
10. Carterian Wine in New Bottles: An Interview with Four Women Writers, Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University, Australia), Sofia Samatar (James Madison University, USA), Veronica Schanoes (City University of New York, USA), Marina Warner (Birkbeck College, UK) and Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA)
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: In the Company of Animals, Samantha Sweeting (Independent Scholar, UK)
Introduction, Sarah Gamble (Swansea University, UK) and Anna Watz (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies
1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carter's Love and Ordinary Language Philosophy, Maggie Tonkin (University of Adelaide, Australia)
2.. 'Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation': Angela Carter's Posthuman Politics, Hope Jennings (Wright State University, USA)
3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter, Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay, Michelle Ryan (Universite d'Angers, France)
Section Two: Re-Visioning
4. Visuality, Gender and Power: Exploring the Female Artist-Performer in Selected Works by Angela Carter, Caleb Ferrari (University of the West of England, UK)
5. Shadow Dance's 'Extreme Eclecticism' - Magic-Realist Painting in the Carterian Tradition, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
6. 'Big Ben Had Once Again Struck Midnight': Neo-Victorian and SF Temporalities in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, Rosalind Crocker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Section Three: Adaptations and Legacies
7. Our Sisters, Our Shelves: Cultural Work as Sistership Work and 'Fairy God-Mother' Carter, Sarah Featonby (Loughborough University, UK)
8. Hybrid Forms: Nights at the Circus and Adaptation, Frances Babbage (University of Sheffield, UK)
9. 'Nothing Sacred': Angela Carter's Iconoclasm, Place-Making and Memorialization, Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England, UK) and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England, UK)
10. Carterian Wine in New Bottles: An Interview with Four Women Writers, Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University, Australia), Sofia Samatar (James Madison University, USA), Veronica Schanoes (City University of New York, USA), Marina Warner (Birkbeck College, UK) and Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA)