Angela Carter

Despite being published in 1977 and in retrospect fairly predictable, The Passion of New Eve took me by surprise many times, and the following review will contain spoilers. New Eve also contains some quite brutal transmisogyny, misgendering and degendering, and sexual violence, which this review will discuss.

This essay was originally submitted as my undergraduate dissertation in English Literature, originally titled ’the new skin that had been born… of her bleeding: Purity, Puberty and Rewriting the Sadeian Fairy Tale in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories’, achieving a 70/100 mark. I decided I wanted to share it on my blog because it is my absolute baby: I put my heart and soul into this essay, and I was super happy to get a First on it. It definitely has its flaws; my main piece of feedback, that the second chapter on ‘Wolf-Alice’ doesn’t fit very well with the rest of my argument, is definitely true. However, since the ‘Wolf-Alice’ chapter was my favourite to write, I’ve left it in. I hope you enjoy reading it!