Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
Nights at the Circus is the eighth of nine novels written by Angela Carter (1940- 92) before she died of cancer at the age of 51, in her literary prime. Raised...
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Angela Carter's fiction poses precisely the question of what is central, what eccentric in contemporary British writing. "We live in Gothic times," she wrote in an afterword to her 1974 collection of ...
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During the inventive last ten years of her life—when she produced two of the most festive and disturbing novels of the last years of the century, Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (19...
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Angela Carter's fantastic fiction is noteworthy for its stylistic excellence, its treatment of feminist themes, and its reliance on and reaction to motion-picture, fairy-tale, folklore, gothic, and sc...
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Teaching Nights at the Circus
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Nights at the Circus Lesson Plans contain 121 pages of teaching material, including:
Nights at the Circus
Angela (Olive) Carter
