Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line

by Sarah Gamble

In this book Sarah Gamble explores Angela Carter's celebration of the marginal, the balance in her work between history and fantasy, fairy tale and reality, excessive desire and love and looks at how these tensions influenced both the form and content of her fiction. Providing close, perceptive readings of all of Carter's fiction, many of the short stories, as well as the non-fiction writing, Sarah Gamble demonstrates how, throughout her career, Carter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748608516
• ISBN13: 9780748608515
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher