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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>

Chalfant, Victor

<p>This dissertation will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo-sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines …

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Exposing Bluebeard! Angela Carter Gets Delirious In The Magic Toyshop, Heroes And Villains, "The Bloody Chamber," And "The Fall River Axe Murders"

Waite, John

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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter

Somerville, Niall James DamienUniversity of Greenwich2017

In their novels, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes …

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