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001    60550480 
003    OCoLC 
005    20160711220520.0 
008    050519s2006    enk      b    001 0beng   
010    2005049196 
020    0333992938|q(hardback) 
020    9780333992937|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)60550480 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dUKM|dAS|dEAS 
043    e-uk-en 
050 00 PR6053.A73|bZ63 2005 
082 00 823/.914|222 
082 04 B|222 
100 1  Gamble, Sarah,|d1962- 
245 10 Angela Carter :|ba literary life /|cSarah Gamble 
260    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;|aNew York, N.Y. :
       |bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2006 
300    viii, 239 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Literary lives 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and 
       index 
505 0  Introduction: Is she fact, or is she fiction? -- Alienated
       is the only way to be -- I'm a sucker for the worker hero 
       -- What were the sixties really like? -- A quite different
       reality -- My now stranger's eye -- You write from your 
       own history -- Conclusion: posthumous fame is no comfort 
       at all 
520 1  "Angela Carter's life was an eventful and vagrant one, 
       including travels to Japan, Russia, American and Australia,
       and early success in the 1960s that did not last into the 
       1970s. But by the time of her tragically early death in 
       1992, Carter had become recognised as one of the most 
       successful and original British literary figures of the 
       twentieth century and she has subsequently become one of 
       the most studied authors in British universities. This 
       book disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy 
       godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a 
       materialist and 'demythologiser' by placing her within the
       social, political and cultural context within which she 
       worked. Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles,
       as well as her fiction, journalism, radio plays and TV 
       programmes, this study examines Carter's engagement with 
       national (particularly English) identity, class, politics 
       and feminism, assessing the relationship between her life,
       her times and her art."--Jacket 
600 10 Carter, Angela,|d1940-1992 
650  0 Authors, English|y20th century|vBiography 
830  0 Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))