Re-Visiting Angela Carter

REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the Co-editor of Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and has published articles on Angela Carter, the Gothic and post-feminism.

'Carter's writings are charged with allusions to a vast array of Western cultural texts - including literary, religious, political and philosophical writings, films, the visual arts and scientific treatises. Intertextuality is the fabric of her work. It is the principle of her attempt to demythologise and to re-imagine human relations. Munford's volume is the first to focus entirely on this key issue in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.' - Professor Aidan Day, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark 'As the title indicates, this volume offers most to scholars already familiar with Carter. However, it will prove indispensable to postgraduate researchers and deserves to be on undergraduate reading lists. Overall, this is an impressive collection that enriches Carter criticism, often taking it in fresh directions. In case there was any doubt, this book will convince readers that revisiting Angela Carter merits more than a brief sojourn: the riches in Carter's work that are revealed here clearly warrant an extended stay.' - Emma Parker, Contemporary Women's Writing

• Foreword; J.Pearson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Angela Carter and the Politics of Intertextuality; R.Munford Convulsive Beauty and Compulsive Desire: The Surrealist Pattern of Shadow Dance ; A.Watz Fruchart Something Sacred: Angela Carter, Jean-Luc Godard and the Sixties; S.Gamble Albertine/a the Ambiguous: Angela Carter's Reconfiguration of Marcel Proust's Modernist Muse; M.Tonkin 'The Other of the Other': Angela Carter's 'New-Fangled' Orientalism; C.Crofts Bubblegum and Revolution: Angela Carter's Hybrid Shakespeare; J.Sanders 'The Margins of the Imaginative Life': The Abject and the Grotesque in Angela Carter and Jonathan Swift; A.Hunt 'Circles of Stage Fire': Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Heteroglossia in the English Comic Novel; R.Duggan Behind Locked Doors: Angela Carter and the Influence of Edgar Allan Poe; G.Wisker Index