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[email protected] INTERPRETATION, GENDER, AND THE READER: ANGELA CARTER'S SELF-CONSCIOUS NOVELS Suzanne Hall Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In the Department of English Literature University of Glasgow June 1991 Suzanne Hall, 1991 CONTENTS Abstract iii ............................................... Acknowledgements ......................................... v Introduction 1 ............................................. Chapter 1: Nights at the Circus: Reporting, Reviewing, Reading 34 ...................................... Chapter 2: Interpreting Desire: Centres and Margins in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 85 ................................................. Chapter 3: The Character of Angela Carter's 'Characters': The Magic Toyshop, Heroes and Villains, Love, and The Passion New Eve 134 of ..................................... Chapter 4: The Character of 'Woman' and the Question of Pornography in The Passion of New Eve The Sadeian Woman 202 and .................................. Chapter 5: The Liberation of the Female Subject? --I: The Magic Toyshop, Heroes and Villains, and The 262 Passion of New Eve ................................