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Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers Author: Rebecca Munford

ISBN: 9781784991036 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Published: 17 August 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8 x 1.5 Description: Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material.

Owing to her fascination with pornography and the imprisoning fantasies of self-sacrificing and monstrous femininity emerging from a male-authored bloodline of European Gothic, Carter's fictions have been censured for their complicity with a fetishistic and sadistic erotic register. This book revisits the uncomfortable contradictions of Carter's writing. It analyses her textual engagements with a dirty lineage that can be mapped from the Marquis de Sade's obsession with desecration and defilement, through Baudelaire's perverse decompositions of the muse and decadent imaginings of infernal femininity, to surrealism's violent dreams of abjection. While Carter's writing might suggest a closer alignment with the unflinching brutality of the Ma...

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