Angela Carter and Decadence

Angela Carter and Decadence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780230393493
ISBN-13 : 0230393497
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Book Synopsis Angela Carter and Decadence by : M. Tonkin

Download or read book Angela Carter and Decadence written by M. Tonkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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