'Her lion-red body, her wings of glass' : iconography of the Gothic body in Carter, Tennant, and Weldon

This thesis examines the varied references to the gothic genre in the work of three contemporary British women writers: Angela Carter, Emma Tennant, and Fay Weldon. It illustrates that the use of gothic imagery in their fiction concedes with feminist revisions of representations of the female body a...

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Main Author: Johnson, Heather L.
Published: University of Edinburgh 1997
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653029