The Invention of Angela Carter - A Biography

The much-anticipated biography of one of the most beguiling and influential writers of the twentieth-century. With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work.

About the author

Edmund Gordon studied philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and English literature at University College London, and since 2011 has been a lecturer in English at King's College London. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, he has also written for a variety of other publications in Britain and the US, including Bookforum and The Guardian.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Gordon, Edmund Gordon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9780190626846
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062684-6
• No. of pages: 504
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Angela:Carter