Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

by Maggie Tonkin

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.

229 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 2012

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well-researched and considered, knowledgeable and insightful work combining a broad historical perspective and drawing intriguing connections and parallels between Carter and other writers, and incisively analysing and countering the arguments of numerous other critics. A complex subject is made readable, indeed compelling.