Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

Tonkin, M.

By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary criticism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-02-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230284159

DOI: 10.1057/9780230393493

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 223