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What is Carter trying to achieve inThe Bloody Chamber?
How does she transform traditional fairy tales?
How radical is her view of the world?
Where does The Bloody Chamber fit into literary tradition?

The Bloody Chamber is a brilliant and disturbing series of short stories. It has puzzled and delighted critics in equal measure. All the stories use themes and ideas from famous fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast, but Angela Carter uses them to create what feels, in each case, like a brand-new world. In doing so, says the critic Marina Warner, Carter “made an inspired, marvellous move”; she neither rejected nor denounced fairy tales but instead embraced them, “and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new fiery liquor that brought them leaping back to life”.

Relevant to pupils studying:
- A Level, AQA, OCR

About The Author

Erica Wagner is the author of Gravity: Stories; Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure: A Novel. Her stories have been widely anthologized and been broadcast on the radio; her poems have appeared in the TLS and PNReview. Pas de Deux/A Concert of Stories, co-written with storyteller Abbi Patrix and musician and composer Linda Edsjö, tours around the world. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for for seventeen years, and she is now a contributing writer for The New Statesman and consulting literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar; she also writes for many other publications, including The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times and The New York Times.

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Erica Wagner is the author of Gravity: Stories; Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure: A Novel. Her stories have been widely anthologized and been broadcast on the radio; her poems have appeared in the TLS and PNReview. Pas de Deux/A Concert of Stories, co-written with storyteller Abbi Patrix and musician and composer Linda Edsjö, tours around the world. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for seventeen years, and she is now a contributing writer for The New Statesman and consulting literary editor for Harper s Bazaar; she also writes for many other publications, including The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times and The New York Times.