TY - JOUR
T1 - Return of the century:
T2 - Time, modernity and the end of history in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
AU - Carroll, Rachel
N1 - Subject to restrictions, author can archive publisher's version/PDF.
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - Set at the 'cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century', Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter's fin de siecle fantasy anticipates the new century as an era of radical transformation and change. However, it is also a text fascinated with modernist myths of origin: from the threshold of the twentieth century it returns to the 'prehistory' of the modern, as constructed by modernism, represened by such motifs as animals, folk and peasant culture, childhood, the wilderness of Siberia, and the colonial 'others' of empire. In The End of Modernity, Gianni Vattimo argues that modernity is 'dominated by the idea that the history of thought is a progressive "enlightenment" which develops through an ever more complete appropriation and reappropriation of it's own foundations.'
AB - Set at the 'cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century', Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter's fin de siecle fantasy anticipates the new century as an era of radical transformation and change. However, it is also a text fascinated with modernist myths of origin: from the threshold of the twentieth century it returns to the 'prehistory' of the modern, as constructed by modernism, represened by such motifs as animals, folk and peasant culture, childhood, the wilderness of Siberia, and the colonial 'others' of empire. In The End of Modernity, Gianni Vattimo argues that modernity is 'dominated by the idea that the history of thought is a progressive "enlightenment" which develops through an ever more complete appropriation and reappropriation of it's own foundations.'
UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3509252?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
M3 - Article
SN - 0306-2473
VL - 30
SP - 187
EP - 201
JO - Yearbook of English Studies
JF - Yearbook of English Studies
ER -