Bewitchment
James Wood
- Shadow Dance by Angela Carter
Virago, 182 pp, £9.99, September 1994, ISBN 1 85381 840 2 - Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter edited by Lorna Sage
Virago, 358 pp, £8.99, September 1994, ISBN 1 85381 760 0
Angela Carter’s first novel, Shadow Dance, is a bold, leathery, coarse book. It summarises thinly its author’s later adventures and preoccupations, as the chapter headings in a picaresque novel do its hero’s: Gothic entropy, sexual ambiguity, personality as masquerade, the theatre of theatre. It is a first wispy cloud in what would become a boiling sky; it casts a small shadow.
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