MLitt Module
EN51015: Angela Carter: Radical Attitude
Module Organiser: Professor Aidan Day
This course looks at Angela Carter's inquiries into gender and sexuality throughout the span of her fiction. It looks at her disagreements not simply with patriarchy but with certain extreme forms of feminism. The course examines, above all else, Carter's commitment to rational perspectives even in the midst of her fantastic narrative style.
Primary Texts
- The Magic Toyshop
- Heroes and Villains
- The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
- The Passion of New Eve
- The Sadeian Woman
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales
- The Passion of New Eve
- Nights at the Circus
- Wise Children
- Neil Jordan, dir. Angela Carter and Neil Jordan, scriptwriters, The Company of Wolves
Text to be Read in association with entire course
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Secondary Texts:
- Joseph Bristow and Trev Lynn Broughton (eds.), The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: fiction, Femininity, Feminism, Longman 1997
- Aidan Day, Angela Carter: The Rational Glass, Manchester University Press, 1998
- Sarah Gamble, Angela Carter, Writing from the Front Line, Edinburgh UP 1997
- Linden Peach, Angela Carter, Macmillan Modern Novelists, 1998
- Lorna Sage, Angela Carter, Writers and their Work series, Northcote House, 1994
- Lorna Sage (ed) Flesh and the Mirror. Essays on the Art of Angela Carter, Virago, 1994
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