Who Said That?
"We told you no other lies nor in any way strayed from the honest truth. Believe it or not, all that I told you as real happenings were so, in fact; and as to questions of whether I am fact or fiction, you must answer that for yourself!"
Fevvers, pp. 292
Where was Fevvers living when she first learned to fly?
Ma Nelson's Brothel
In what year does Nights at the Circus take place?
1899
Fevvers and Lizzie resist Victorian era norms related primarily to what?
Gender or Sexuality
"these wings of mine! Still adolescent, as yet, not half their adult size, and moist, sticky, like freshly unfurled foliage on an April tree" (pp. 24)
Simile
"Hey, there! didn't that clock strike midnight just a while ago, after the night watchman came round?"
Walser, pp. 42
What was the name of the area Walser lived in while staying in St. Petersburg?
Clown Alley
What is the name of the time period referring to the years between 1837 and 1901?
The Victorian Period
"___ or ___"; that's the question about Fevvers that opens and closes the novel.
Fact of Fiction
Part I of Nights at the Circus is primarily narrated through what novelistic device?
Dialogue
"I feared the proof of my own singularity."
Fevvers, pp. 34
What was the name of the Russian circus where both Fevvers and Walser performed in Part II of the novel?
The Imperial Circus, pp. 105
In addition to being a novelist, short story writer, and poet, what other job did Angela Carter have?
A journalist
Fevvers is an example of this type of woman, which Lizzie and Fevvers associate with the New Century.
New Woman
What literary genre is Nights at the Circus typically considered?
Magical Realism
"We can invent our own faces! We make ourselves."
Buffo, pp. 121
What is the name of the music hall where Fevvers performs and where Part I of the novel takes place?
The Alhambra
What term is used to describe the type of prison design where the all-women convicts were kept in Part II?
Panopticon
Fevvers's experience in Madame Schreck's house asks the reader to consider who is the real ______, the performers or the audience.
Monster
Part III of the novel alternates between what two styles of narration?
First Person and Third Person
"Love is one thing and fancy another"
Lizzie, pp. 280
Where did Fevvers give a lecture to professors about flight navigation in birds?
The Royal Society, pp. 60
What is the name of the movement Lizzie was a member of, which involved radical assaults on social norms and institutions?
Suffragettes
The Professor and his ape students, the dancing tigers, and the train-saving elephants are meant to destabilize what idea?
That humans are somehow superior to other animals. Instead, animals share in agency and are equal in the circus (and life), not subservient to human whims.
Nights at the Circus and Angela Carter's other works are considered to be a part of what major literary period?
Postmodernism