2009 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, a story collection which has had a profound and pervasive impact on our understanding of and engagement with the fairy tale.

‘The Fairy Tale after Angela Carter’ will take the anniversary as the starting point for an assessment of the state of the fairy tale and of fairy-tale studies in the wake of The Bloody Chamber.  It will take ‘after’ in both senses of the word, to suggest influence – both direct and indirect – as well as chronology. As such, the primary focus will be the critical and creative legacy of Carter’s work as writer, critic, editor and translator of fairy tales. Fairy-tale studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field, one in which there is a mutually enriching relationship between literary-historical scholarship and various forms of creative practice. The aim of the conference will be to stage and explore this relationship as energetically as possible; to assess the state of current critical and creative practice, as well as to pinpoint future directions for writing and research.  Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of Marvels & Tales (2010)

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