Angela Carter

Although Angela Carter's work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is still only partially understood. Lorna Sage argues that one key to a better understanding of Carter's writings is the extraordinary intelligence with which she reads the cultural signs of our times. From camp subversiveness in the 1960s to fairy stories, gender-politics, and the theoretical 'pleasure of the text', which she made so real in her writing, Carter legitimized the life of fantasy, and celebrated the fertility of the female imagination more actively than any other writer of her generation. Lorna Sage's study explores the roots of Carter's originality, covering all her novels as well as some short stories and non-fiction.