Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques
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Author(s)M. Tonkin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0230284159
ISBN-139780230284159
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Sales Rank6,622,660
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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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