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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 science-fiction sources. Despite the fact that her posta...

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 (1991)—Angela Carter also reinvented herself. She to...

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 tales, Fireworks; and all her work reflects that perce...

Angela Carter reexamines fairy tales from a feminist perspective in her collection of fairy tales 'The Bloody Chamber.' Carter, who has made the distinction between folk tales as a pre-capitalist folk form and fairy tales as a bourgeois art form, uses intertextuality to explore...

It takes an iron nerve to perceive the connection between the promise of life implicit in eroticism and the sensuous aspect of death. Mankind conspires to ignore the fact that death is also the youth of things. Blind-folded, we refuse to see that...

In the Gothic genre, transgression can not only be a stimulus, but serves as an outcome to the story too. This is particularly true in Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" whereby the stories end on a highly transgressive note - a girl eating up her grandmother and inheriting all her wealth, a girl turning into a tiger, a girl strangling the Erl-king.