Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

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.

Author: M. Tonkin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230284159

About the Author
MAGGIE TONKIN teaches nineteenth and twentieth century literary studies on a sessional basis at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has published articles on Angela Carter and on contemporary Australian fiction, and also writes journalism and reviews for the Australian dance press.