Sonya Andermahr - Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

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Angela Carter: New Critical Readings

Edited by

Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips

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Sonya Andermahr, Lawrence Phillips and Contributors 2012

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Angela Carter: new critical readings/edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-6928-0 ISBN 978-1-4411-4111-8

1. Carter, Angela, 1940-1992Criticism and interpretation.

I. Andermahr, Sonya. II. Phillips, Lawrence (Lawrence Alfred), 1966-

PR6053.A73Z5285 2012

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Contents

Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, U.K. She has written widely on contemporary British and American womens writing. Her publications include Jeanette Winterson (Palgrave 2009), Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide (Continuum, 2007) and, with Terry Lovell and Carol Wolkowitz, A Glossary of Feminist Theory (Edward Arnold, 2000). Her current research interest lies in female trauma narratives with a particular focus on narratives of maternal loss in contemporary womens writing.

Sarah Artt is Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance , and the edited collections Reading Rocky Horror (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and Translation, Adaptation and Transformation (Continuum 2012). Her teaching and research interests focus on contemporary issues in screen adaptation, Hollywood cinema, womens writing and filmmaking and science fiction.

Sarah Gamble is Reader in English with Gender at Swansea University. She is a specialist in contemporary womens writing and gender theory, with a particular interest in the life and work of Angela Carter. She is the author of Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line (1997) and Angela Carter: A Literary Life (2006), the editor of Angela Carter: A Readers Guide to Essential Criticism (2001) and has also written numerous articles on Angela Carter and other contemporary women writers such as Sarah Waters, Pat Barker and Michele Roberts. She is currently engaged in a project funded by the British Academy focussing on Carters early poetry, and is also writing a monograph on Carters engagement with the Gothic.

Katie Garner is a PhD student and Postgraduate Tutor in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Her doctoral thesis looks at British women writers responses to the medieval revival in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the co-author (with Rebecca Munford) of an essay-length entry on Feminism in The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory: Literary Theory from 1966 to the Present (2010).

Simon Goulding studied for his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written many articles for a variety of journals including Literary London and has work on Siegfried Sassoon to be published in 2012. He is currently completing work on his first book.

Susanne Gruss specializes in contemporary English literature and culture as well as in early modern drama. She has published a monograph on twentieth-century feminist writing ( The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michle Roberts and Angela Carter ), and written articles on film adaptation, questions of canonization, ecofeminism and the Gothic conventions in Harry Potter . Her research interests include gender studies, film and media studies, Neo-Victorianism and, more recently, the intersection of legal discourses and literature and Jacobean revenge tragedy.

Jane Hentgs is a Senior Lecturer at Pau University in the South of France. She specializes in twentieth-century English literature and womens writing in particular. She is interested in how women reinvent reality through the gothic, surrealism and magic realism in order to express otherness. She is also interested in the different ways women play with humour to transgress and create. Her doctoral thesis is on the double eye/I and playing with the double in Angela Carters novels. She has published numerous articles, mainly on Angela Carter.

Kari Jegerstedt is Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Womens and Gender Research at the University of Bergen, Norway, with a project on reading and globalization. She has co-authored Kjnnsteori [Gender Theory] (with Ellen Mortensen et al. 2008) and published articles on feminist theory, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and British, Norwegian and South African literature. She is working on a book on feminist resistance in the age of multiple identities.

Hope Jennings is an Assistant Professor at Wright State University-Lake Campus where she teaches British Literature and Womens Studies. She received her PhD from the University of St. Andrews for a thesis examining myth and gender in Angela Carters fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Journal of Contemporary Literature, Michigan Feminist Studies , Margaret Atwood Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities . She recently completed a fictional biography of the Modernist poet, Mina Loy, and is currently writing a book-length study, Beyond Apocalypse: Re-Visions of the End in 20 th Century and Contemporary Womens Writing .

Lorna Jowett is a Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, where she teaches some of her favourite things, including horror, science fiction and television sometimes all at once. Her research focuses on genre and gender across film, television and literature and recent publications include articles on Heroes, Supernatural and the science fiction of Kurt Vonnegut. Her monograph, Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan , was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2005 and she is on the editorial board of Slayage: the Journal of the Whedon Studies Association . She is currently co-writing with Stacey Abbott a book on TV Horror.

Anja Mller-Wood is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany. She is the author of two monographs Angela Carter: Identity Constructed/Deconstructed (1997) and The Theatre of Civilized Excess: New Perspectives on Jacobean Tragedy (2007) and has published numerous articles on early modern English literature and culture as well as on twentieth-century and contemporary British fiction. Her further research interests include combining literary studies and linguistics and exploring the aesthetics and psychology of literary reception. She is currently developing a long-term project that will reconsider the latter from the angle of evolutionary psychology and the cognitive sciences.