SOURCE: Berni, Christine. “Taking an Axe to History: The Historical Lizzie Borden and the Postmodern Historiography of Angela Carter.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 27, no. 1 (fall 1997): 29-55.
In the following essay, Berni reads Carter's short story “The Fall River Axe Murders” as a commentary on traditional literary and historical representations of the past.
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