Scholarship and criticism on Angela Carter

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Monographs

• Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television by Charlotte Crofts (2003)
• Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale by Danielle M. Roemer

Criticism (articles and essays)

A-C

Harriet Blodgett.

• "Fresh Iconography: Subversive Fantasy by Angela Carter." The Review of Contemporary Fiction v. 14 (Fall 1994): pp. 49-55.

Robert Clark.

• "Angela Carter's Desire Machine." Women's Studies v. 14, no. 2 (1987): pp. 147-161.

D-F

Scott A. Dimovitz.

• "Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne in Angela Carter's Japanese Surrealism", FemSpec v.6, n.2 (2005), pp.15-31.
• "Angela Carter's Narrative Chiasmus: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and The Passion of New Eve", Genre XLII (Spring/Summer 2009), pp.83-112. (available at the Regis College faculty archive)
• "'I Was the Subject of the Sentence Written on the Mirror': Angela Carter's Short Fiction and the Unwriting of the Psychoanalytic Subject", Literature Interpretation Theory, v.21, pp.1-19 (2010) (available at the Regis College faculty archive)

G-J

Janet Garton.

• "Little Red Riding Hood Comes of Age: Or, When the Fantastic Becomes the Feminist." in Essays in Memory of Michael Parkinson and Janine Dakyns (Christopher Smith, ed., & Mike Carr, fwd.) (Norwich: School of Mod. Lang. & European Studies, Univ. of East Anglia, 1996, viii, 390 pp.) (pp. 289-294). (discussing Angela Carter, "The Werewolf", "Red Riding Rood", Marta Tikkanen, Todlluvan (1986), "The Company of Wolves")

Michael Hardin.

• "The Other Other: Self-Definition Outside Patriarchal Institutions in Angela Carter's Wise Children." The Review of Contemporary Fiction. v. 14 (Fall 1994): pp. 77-83.

Elyce Rae Helford.

• "Sizing Up the Body: Body Size and Self-Image in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Molly Keane's Good Behaviour." Feminist Graduate Student Conference ("Parallels and Intersections: Racism and Other Forms of Oppression"). Iowa City, IA; April 1989.

K-M

Brooks Landon.

• "Eve at the End of the World: Sexuality and the Reversal of Expectations in Novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, and Thomas Berger." Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood, 1986: pp. 61-74.

T-Z

Nicoletta Vallorani.

• "The Body of the City: Angela Carter's The Passion of the New Eve." Science Fiction Studies v. 21 (November 1994), pages 365-379.

Conferences & Meetings

• "The Fairy Tale After Angela Carter" (2009), organized by Stephen Benson

Special issues

• Marvels & Tales, v.24, n.1 (2010): "Special Issue on the Fairy Tale After Angela Carter".

Memorials and Obituaries

• "Angela Carter, 1940-92: A Very Good Wizard, a Very Dear Friend" (memorial essay) by Salman Rushdie, March 8, 1992, NYT.

Bibliographies

• "An Angela Carter Bibliography" by Joanne M. Gass

Documentaries, Films, etc.

• "Angela Carter's Curious Room" (a 1992 BBC2 Omnibus documentary about Angela Carter)

Websites

• Unofficial Angela Carter Site by Andrew --