Angela Carter's Pasts

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

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.

• 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)