Angela Carter : a literary life / Sarah Gamble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamble, Sarah, 1962-

Series:

Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Literary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.

Carter, Angela.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Angela Carter's life was an eventful and vagrant one, including travels to Japan, Russia, America and Australia, and early success in the 1960s that did not last into the 1970s. But by the time of her tragically early death in 1992, Carter had become recognised as one of the most successful and original British literary figures of the twentieth century and she has subsequently become one of the most studied authors in British universities. This book disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a materialist and 'demythologiser' by placing her within the social, political and cultural context within which she worked. Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles, as well as her fiction, journalism, radio plays and TV programmes, this study examines Carter's engagement with national (particularly English) identity, class, politics and feminism, assessing the relationship between her life, her times and her art.

Contents:

Introduction: Is She Fact, or Is She Fiction? 1

1 Alienated Is the Only Way to Be 14

2 I'm a Sucker for the Worker Hero 47

3 What Were the Sixties Really Like? 76

4 A Quite Different Reality 104

5 My Now Stranger's Eye 133

6 You Write From Your Own History 163

Conclusion: Posthumous Fame is no Comfort at All 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and index.

ISBN:

0333992938

OCLC:

60550480

Publisher Number:

9780333992937 (hbk.)