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There are 19 critical essays on Angela Carter.
Critical Essays on Angela Carter
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Critical Essay by Stephen Benson
13,436 words, approx. 45 pages
 In the following essay, Benson explores the perception in literary criticism of Carter's use of fairy tales.
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Critical Essay by Linden Peach
10,818 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, Peach examines similarities between The Magic Toyshop and Heroes and Villains.
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Critical Essay by Emma Parker
10,558 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Parker interprets Carter's literature of consumption as a rebellion against patriarchy.
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Critical Essay by Jean Wyatt
10,224 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Wyatt argues that Carter rewrites Freud's theories on female sexuality in The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and “Peter and the Wolf.”
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Critical Essay by Brian H. Finney
9,911 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Finney discusses Carter's assertion that Nights at the Circus is about the nature of narrative.
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Critical Essay by Peter G. Christensen
8,229 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Christensen examines Carter's “demythologizing” of the Lulu character in her revisions of the Lulu plays.
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Critical Essay by Christine Berni
7,897 words, approx. 26 pages
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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Critical Essay by Dee Goertz
6,080 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Goertz addresses the dangers for women of being objects of desire rather than active sexual subjects in Carter's writings.
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Critical Essay by Jack Zipes
3,857 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Zipes examines Carter's early fairy tales for children for elements she would use later in her postmodern revisionist tales.
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Interview by Angela Carter and Anna Katsavos
3,634 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following interview, which was conducted in New York City in 1988, Carter discusses her thoughts on myth, narrative, and modern literary theory.
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Patricia Juliana Smith
3,073 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Smith describes Angela Carter's novel Love as a "postmodern pastiche" of the eighteenth-century novel of sensibility.
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Critical Essay by Joanne M. Gass
2,912 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Gass explores the image of the panopticon and its relation to the containment of women in Nights at the Circus.
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