Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber

• Patricia Dunner :


  "Carter has too many ideologies. New tales are contaminated by ideas and values of old tales"
• Carter :


  Angela Carter views the latent content of Grimm's fairy tales to be latently sexual.
• Carter is redefining the basic assumptions of women in fairy tales
• Jago Morrison


  "The Bloody Chamber is an archaeological investigation of gender representation coupled with a set of creative attempts at subversion and so dismisses a proper feminist fiction."
• Helen Simpson


  The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism

  
• Helen Simpson


  "The Bloody Chamber is like a multifaceted glittering diamond reflecting and refracting a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality"
• Helen Simpson

  
• Carter critiques conservative and limiting depictions of women and gender notions through a complex interplay of old and new.
• Makinen


  "Carter gets locked into conservative sexism despite her good intentions."
• Susan Kappeler


  "Condemned Carter's depiction of women as mere objects of male pornography."
• De Sade


  "I really can't see what's wrong with finding out what the great male fantasies about women are."
• Carter


  "attempts to decolonise our habits of thought"
• Carter

  The Sadeian Woman

  - In 1979 Carter published another book which was an extended essay on pornography and the Marquis de Sade called 'The Sadeian Woman'.

  - Has been described as a 'parallel text, or polemical preface' to 'The Bloody Chamber'.

  - Carter argues that despite Sade's evident misogyny, he was nevertheless correct to treat 'all sexual reality as political reality.
• Emily M Danforth


  Gothic's staying power, and recent boom, has a lot to do with our desire to slip under the spell of stories.
• Freud : The Uncanny 1919

  "that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar."
• Hephzibah Anderson

  
• Jessamy Baldwin

  
• E.B Manley


  " is a woman in process, someone who is exploring her subject position and beginning to tell her own story "
• Jessamy Baldwin


  Instead of giving into Male desire, Carter is showing how the woman in this tale is satisfying her own polymorphous desire, so it is "not women enacting porn for the male gaze, but women re-appropriating libido" - Carter
• E.B Manley


  "the mirror scenes establish the protagonist as oscillating between girlhood and womanhood, between a patriarchal view and her own definition of herself "