![]() ![]() In the five modules that follow, we focus on four of the constituent stories in The Bloody Chamber: in the second and third modules, we focus on the first story in the collection, ‘The Bloody Chamber’ in the fourth module, we focus on ‘The Erl-King’ in the fifth module, ‘The Lady in the House of Love’ and in the sixth module, ‘Wolf-Alice’. ![]() We begin by providing an introduction to Carter herself, focusing in particular on the range of her literary output and her interest in folklore and fairy tales. In this course, Professor Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England) explores Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. In this section, we think about the causes of death for some of Bluebeard’s wives in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, focusing in particular on the literary allusions that Carter weaves into the story, including Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Sheridan le Fanu’s Carmilla, and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. ![]()
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