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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... read more
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- Angela Carter: Add a description of this character.
- Walser
- Judith Butler
- Carroll
- Lizzie
- Russo
- Ma Nelson
- Paulina Palmer
- Michael
- Margaret Thatcher
- Routledge
- Patricia Waugh
- Barthes
- Fevvers
- Walter Benjamin
- Munford
- Nussbaum
- W. B. Yeats
- Macmillan
- Dickens
- Cleland
- Lorna Sage
- Trev Lynn Broughton
- Madame Schreck
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- T. S. Eliot
- Leda
- Buffo
- Toussaint
- Jeannette Baxter
- Linda Hutcheon
- Mulvey
- Joseph Bristow
- Peterson
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- Wood
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- Helen Stoddart (Author)
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- Dewey: 823.914
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Postmodernism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Gothic Revival
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Feminist
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › History › Europe › Wales
- Books › Reference › Writing
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