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Christopher Frayling
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Inside the Bloody Chamber: on Angela Carter, the Gothic, and other weird tales |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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272 |
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2015-08-30 |
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1783198214 |
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Oberon Books Ltd |
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1.58 pounds |
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6.0 x 1.0 x 9.0 inches |
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Since 1990, Angela Carter's reputation - as writer and thinker - has soared, to the point where her collection of folk and fairy tales for the modern age, The Bloody Chamber, is now a GCSE set text in England, and is taught on most university-level literature courses. There are MA programmes entirely devoted to her writings. Her complete works have been printed and reprinted over the last quarter-century, and films - The Company of Wolves, The Magic Toyshop - and plays - such as Nights at the Circus (Kneehigh) - have been derived from them. Her influence on 'the contemporary Gothic' is both wide-ranging and profound. Frayling knew Angela very well, when she lived in Bath in the 1970s, and when her key works - The Bloody Chamber, The Sadeian Woman, The Passion of New Eve - were being written. He was researching and writing his study of The Vampyre in literature, at this time, and he and Angela shared a lot of conversations, ideas and inspiration, often at the very witching hour. In fact, one of the stories in The Bloody Chamber - 'The Lady of the House of Love' - is based on his research visit to Transylvania in the spring of 1976; Frayling became 'Hero', a fine upstanding public school chap who encounters all sorts of erotic surprises on his travels...Angela published New Eve on the same day as The Vampyre, both with Victor Gollancz. Published to mark the 25th anniversary of her untimely death, Inside the Bloody Chamber gathers together some of Frayling's articles, essays and lectures written since the 1980s on aspects of the Gothic - several in hard-to-find places, many never published before, but all revised for this new book. The subjects loosely match Angela's interests - mirrored in the stories within The Bloody Chamber - and they mesh with his memories of the 1970s in Bath.
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