Notes on Contributors \ 1. Introduction \ Part I: Genre and Canon \ 2. Contemporary Women's Writing: Carter's Literary Legacy Sonya Andermahr \ 3. ‘Isn't it every girl's dream to be married in white?': Angela Carter's Bridal Gothic Sarah Gamble \ 4. Between the Paws of the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience Lorna Jowett \ 5. Angela Carter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns Susanne Gruss\ 6. The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter's ‘Food Fetishes' Maria José Pires \ 7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room' Michelle Ryan-Sautour \ 8. ‘Cradling an axe like a baby': Angela Carter's Lulu Mine Özyurt Kiliç \ Part II: Philosophies \ 9. Sex, Violence, and Ethics - Reassessing Carter's ‘Moral' Relativism Lawrence Phillips \10.Angela Carter, Naturalist Anja Müller-Wood \ 11.The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance Anna Watz \ 12. The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve Kari Jegerstedt \ 13. Blending the Pre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance (1966) and Love (1971) Katie Garner \ Part III: Mythologies \ 14. Genesis and Gender: The Word, the Flesh, and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf' and ‘Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest' Hope Jennings \ 15. ‘Ambulant Fetish': The Exotic Woman in ‘Black Venus' and ‘Master' Sarah Artt \ 16. Seeing the City, Reading the City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and the Sixties Simon Goulding \ Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia and Surrealism in Shadow Dance Jane Hentgès \ Index