At the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had already become an important and widely-read British author. In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular study, Linden Peach provides a wealth of new material including: contemporary critical approaches to Carterÿs work one of the first discussions of the Italian film director Felliniÿs influence on her fiction an engaging study of Carterÿs interest in the aesthetics of the circus and music hall extended analysis of her most widely studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, and her long essay The Sadeian Woman. Arguing that Carterÿs fiction anticipates current debates around concepts such as æpost-feminismÿ and æpost-feminist Gothicÿ, this lucid account of Carterÿs contribution to the modern novel features exciting re-readings of her key works and examines the impact she has had on other women writers for whom she paved the way. It is an ideal introduction for anyone who is looking for an approachable, but sophisticated, twenty-first-century assessment of Carter as a novelist. Book jacket.