{"product_id":"shifting-book-bethany-wiggins-9780802722805","title":"Shifting","description":"\u003cp\u003eA highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's \u003cem\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/em\u003e 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 perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guide to Angela Carter's complex novel, presents: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ean accessible introduction to the text and contexts of \u003cem\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003ea critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea selection of new critical essays on the \u003cem\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, by Heather Johnson, Jeannette Baxter, Sarah Sceats and Helen Stoddart, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esuggestions for further reading. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the \u003cem\u003eRoutledge Guides to Literature\u003c\/em\u003e series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of \u003cem\u003eNights at the Circus\u003c\/em\u003e and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter's text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50137938886929,"sku":"CIN0802722806G","price":4.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802722806.jpg?v=1751169860","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/shifting-book-bethany-wiggins-9780802722805","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}