To Linden Peach, a scholar in Britain who specializes in US fiction, Carter is an English writer strongly influenced by American culture, especially the criticism of Leslie Fiedler.
To Aidan Day, Carter is preeminently a rationalist to Sarah Gamble, she is a feminist interested in dramatizating the liminal. Yet, as mentioned, the studies under review explore a limited range among these myriad options. Is she best approached through her ideas or through her images-i.e., her by turns gothic and festive representations of the body? Is she a philosopher or a gadfly? Is she tragic or comic, postmodern or surreal or realistic? Are we being invited to a lustily transgressive carnival or a grim and decadent masquerade? Did Carter write fantasy, historical fiction, science fiction, feminist polemic, or anti-feminist polemic? The answer is Yes. Collectively, they suggest a lack of consensus on Carter, a certain cluelessness. But eight years after her death, it is time to begin to try.Īll these books follow well-marked but narrow paths through Carter's sometimes exuberant, sometimes foreboding imaginary landscapes. The four recent critical studies under review here suggest, in fact, that Angela Carter is, like other major writers who have lived and learned, nearly impossible to summarize. She has been read as sympatico and as off-putting, as a feminist and as a misogynist. She introduces us to honky-tonk angels such as Fevvers in Nights at the Circus (1984) and to historical monsters such as Lizzie Borden and Charles Baudelaire in the stories collected in Black Venus (1985 US title Saints and Strangers ). "Don't worry," they said, carting him out of the way of the stars, "it's only a writer."-Angela Carter, Wise ChildrenĪngela Carter's fiction is by turns grotesque ( The Passion of New Eve ) and beguiling ("The Kitchen Child" ), affably forthcoming ( Wise Children ) and ascetically opaque ( The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Keeled over at the Dream premiere, outside Grauman's Chinese. Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line.Įdinburgh UP, 1997. Of Reverie: Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Iser, and the Reader's Response toĪngela Carter. Touponce's Ray Bradbury and the Poetics.Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature (RL) THE SHINING: Essays on the Bestselling Novel by America's Premier HorrorĮssays on America's Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction. Magistrale's Discovering Stephen King's.Johnston's Information Multiplicity (David Seed).Telotte's A Distant Technology (Richard D.Crossley's An Olaf Stapledon Reader (David H.Bell's An Index to Canadian SF of the Pulp Era (Neil Barron).Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Kathleen L.
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