Angela Carter: The Rational Glass - Hardcover

Day, Aidan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719053153 ISBN 13: 9780719053153

Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr, 1998

Synopsis

This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work; but consistency of theme is not the same thing as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times, and concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the Medieval through de Sade to Foucault. Aidan Day describes theoretical arguments on the Enlightenment, modernity, feminism and postmodernism in a way which does not assume too much prior knowledge. Broader in its appeal than much of the specialist work written on Carter, which tends to stress special interests in fantasy, sexuality or the gothic, Day's clarity and thoroughness are refreshing in that they credit Angela Carter's fiction with the central place that it deserves.

About this title

About the Author

Aidan Day is Reader in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719053153
• ISBN 13: 9780719053153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224