ABSTRACT

Heather Johnson works in the areas of Gothic studies and contemporary women’s writing and is based at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications on Carter focus on gender and subjectivity. See ‘Textualizing the DoubleGendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve’ in Angela Easton (ed.), Angela Carter, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000; and ‘Unexpected Geometries: Transgressive Symbolism and the Subject’ in Joseph Bristow and Trev Lynn Broughton (eds), The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter.