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