num_pages: 152
description: A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. This guide to Angela Carter’s complex novel, Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Nights at the Circus and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter’s text.
language: English
title: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide
titlecomplete: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Routledge