The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion, art, poetry, music, performance and translation, which will be discussed in a number of historical, literary and cultural contexts.

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol

Introduction: Angela Carter's Curious Rooms by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
1 Angela Carter's poetry by Sarah Gamble
2 Bloody Chamber refrains: painting and music in The Bloody Chamber by Julie Sauvage
3 Psychogeography in the curiosity cabinet: Angela Carter's poetics of space by Anna Kérchy
4 The 'art of faking': theatre, performance and puppets in Angela Carter's Japan by Helen Snaith
5 Intermedial synergy in Angela Carter's short fiction by Michelle Ryan-Sautour
6 'Clothes are our weapons': dandyism, fashion and subcultural style in Angela Carter's fiction of the 1960s by Catherine Spooner
7 Angela Carter's "rigorous system of disbelief": Religion, misogyny, myth and the Cult by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
8 Disgust, desire and dead women: Angela Carter's re-writing women's fatal scripts from Poe and Lovecraft by Gina Wisker
9 The rough and the deadly: the theatre of Angela Carter by Maggie Tonkin
10 Angela Carter's objets trouvés in translation: from Baudelaire to Black Venus by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère,
11 Meat and American Indians: Angela Carter and Claude Lévi-Strauss by Heidi Yeandle
12 'I resented it, it fascinated me': Carter's ambivalent cinematic fiction and the construction of femininity by Caleb Sivyer
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