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The Bloody Chamber, published the same year, combined Carter’s interests in feminism, fairy tales, pornography, and anthropology (the study of human beings and their environment) into adaptations of cultural legends. Reworkings of fairy tales became one of Carter’s dominant themes in the next two decades. Two of Carter’s last published works were scholarly collections of fairy tales.
Critical anthology for OCR (12) D.H. Lawrence Short stories (1) Dracula by Bram Stoker (13) Emma by Jane Austen (12) Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (16) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (2) Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (18) The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (3) Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (1) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (7.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a medieval collection of stories told by a group of English pilgrims. The narrator sets out on a pilgrimage to Canterbury along with twenty-nine other.
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The Scarlet Letter was the first, and the tendency of criticism is to pronounce it the most impressive, also, of these ampler productions. It has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not.
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Of all English poets, Thomas Chatterton seemed to his great Romantic successors most to typify a commitment to the life of imagination. His poverty and untimely suicide represented the martyrdom of the poet by the materialistic society of his time. William Wordsworth, listing in “Resolution and Independence” (1807) those poets to whom he owed most, describes Chatterton as “the marvellous.