{"id":2410,"date":"2014-10-21T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:23:29","slug":"the-infernal-desire-machine-of-angela-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2410","title":{"rendered":"The Infernal Desire Machine of Angela Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>The Infernal Desire Machine of Angela Carter: Selections from the Bradford Morrow Collection<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Angela Carter (1940-1992) was one of the most prolific and innovative writers of her time. \u00a0In his introduction to her collected stories, Burning Your Boats, Carter\u2019s friend Salman Rushdie deemed her work \u201cby turns formal and outrageous, exotic and demotic, exquisite and coarse, precious and raunchy, fabulist and socialist, purple and black.\u201d \u00a0Born Angela Olive Stalker, she was raised in Yorkshire, England and attended high school in south London where she began writing at an early age, first as a journalist and soon thereafter as a fiction writer, essayist, translator, and dramatist. \u00a0Indeed, her first book, Unicorn, was published as a mimeographed pamphlet just after Carter\u2019s sixteenth birthday in May, 1966. \u00a0Among her best-known works are Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (written while she lived in Japan), The Magic Toyshop, Love, Nights at the Circus, Wise Children, Black Venus (published in America as Saints and Strangers), the groundbreaking study The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, and her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber. \u00a0A pioneering feminist writer and brilliant re-inventor of classic fables and fairy tales, Angela Carter, whose untimely death of lung cancer cut short a burgeoning career, is now widely considered one of the most influential British authors of the second half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 20- Friday, December 5, 2014<br \/>\nStevenson Library Atrium<\/p>\n<p>Opening Reception: Monday, October 27th, 4:30-6:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infernal Desire Machine of Angela Carter: Selections from the Bradford Morrow Collection Angela Carter (1940-1992) was one of the most prolific and innovative writers of her time. \u00a0In his introduction to her collected stories, Burning Your Boats, Carter\u2019s friend Salman Rushdie deemed her work \u201cby turns formal and outrageous, exotic and demotic, exquisite and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vitrine-displays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}