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Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angel, Munford.+
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- PublishedOn
- 2013-07-01
- Title
- Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and Euro
- ISBN
- 9780719076718
- Book Title
- Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers : Angela Carter and European Gothic
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Item Length
- 5.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- Women Authors, Folklore & Mythology, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719076714
ISBN-13
9780719076718
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159779476
Product Key Features
Book Title
Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers : Angela Carter and European Gothic
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Women Authors, Folklore & Mythology, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
5.7 in
Item Width
8.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Witty, incisive, and rigorously argued, this book offers a genuinely fresh perspective on the work of Angela Carter by placing it in the context of European Gothic writing by authors such as de Sade, Baudelaire, J.-K. Huysman and those like Poe who, while not European, were heavily influenced by that tradition. Munford skilfully uses images and motifs from Carter's own work (such as dust, chess, the thorny hedge surrounding the castle of Sleeping Beauty) as points of return and to inflect her argument and these lend her own book a beautiful and elegant coherence., Munford's attention to detail in her dissection of these works and discussion of how Carter's textual practice reveals the mechanics of European Gothic fantasies and allusions is admirable and makes for a fascinating read. Her inclusion within the monograph shortlist for the Allan Lloyd Smith prize is well-deserved., Donna Mitchell, The Gothic Imagination, University of Stirling, 2 July 2015
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Table Of Content
Introduction: Angela Carter and European Gothic 1. Sleeping Beauty and the Sadeian Gothic 2. Poe, Baudelaire and the decomposing muse 3. Dolls, dreams and mad queens 4. Daddy's girls and the Gothic fiction of maternity Afterword: The Museum of dust Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. This book analyses Carter's textual engagements with a dirty lineage of European Gothic that can be mapped from the Marquis de Sade's obsession with desecration and defilement, through Baudelaire's perverse decompositions of the muse and decadent imaginings of infernal femininity, to surrealism's violent dreams of abjection. It argues that Carter's most troublesome engagements with her European Gothic forefathers are unexpectedly those which are most vital to a consideration of her feminist politics. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers will be of interest to researchers and students working on contemporary women's writing, the Gothic and comparative literature., Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material., Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. -- .
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PR6053.A73
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