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A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter "s Nights at the Circuscombines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. This guide to Angela Carter "s complex novel, presents: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Nights at the Circus a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the Nights at the Circus, by Heather Johnson, Jeannette Baxter, Sarah Sceats and Helen Stoddart, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literatureseries, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Nights at the Circusand seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter "s text.
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Notes and references p. ix
Introduction p. xi
Text and contexts p. 1
Angela Carter: biography and writing p. 3
Academic contexts p. 4
Internationalism p. 5
Recognition p. 6
Britain in the 1890s and the 1980s: Margaret Thatcher p. 8
Britain in the 1960s: cultural change p. 10
Literary contexts and beyond p. 12
Critical contexts p. 21
Walter Benjamin and the 'angel of history' p. 21
Michel Foucault and the panoptican p. 24
Laura Mulvey, female stars and 'to-be-looked-at-ness' p. 26
Mikhail Bakhtin: the carnivalesque and the grotesque p. 27
Postmodernism: intertextuality, bricolage and metafiction p. 31
Magical realism p. 34
Masquerade and the performative p. 37
Critical history p. 41
Reviews p. 43
Gender, feminism and the carnivalesque p. 46
Performance and masquerade p. 50
Freakery and the grotesque p. 52
History and politics p. 56
Postmodernism and history p. 58
Genre: picaresque, magic realism and Gothic p. 63
Critical readings p. 67
'Metafiction, Magical Realism and Myth' p. 69
'Performance, Identity and the Body' p. 82
'Postmodernism' p. 95
'Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns' p. 108
Further reading and web resources p. 123
Index p. 133
Introduction p. xi
Text and contexts p. 1
Angela Carter: biography and writing p. 3
Academic contexts p. 4
Internationalism p. 5
Recognition p. 6
Britain in the 1890s and the 1980s: Margaret Thatcher p. 8
Britain in the 1960s: cultural change p. 10
Literary contexts and beyond p. 12
Critical contexts p. 21
Walter Benjamin and the 'angel of history' p. 21
Michel Foucault and the panoptican p. 24
Laura Mulvey, female stars and 'to-be-looked-at-ness' p. 26
Mikhail Bakhtin: the carnivalesque and the grotesque p. 27
Postmodernism: intertextuality, bricolage and metafiction p. 31
Magical realism p. 34
Masquerade and the performative p. 37
Critical history p. 41
Reviews p. 43
Gender, feminism and the carnivalesque p. 46
Performance and masquerade p. 50
Freakery and the grotesque p. 52
History and politics p. 56
Postmodernism and history p. 58
Genre: picaresque, magic realism and Gothic p. 63
Critical readings p. 67
'Metafiction, Magical Realism and Myth' p. 69
'Performance, Identity and the Body' p. 82
'Postmodernism' p. 95
'Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns' p. 108
Further reading and web resources p. 123
Index p. 133
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