Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Hammill, Faye; Seed, David, ed. (2005) Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In: A Companion to Science Fiction. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 522-533. ISBN 1405112182
Full text not available in this repository.Request a copyAbstract
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. * This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. * Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. * Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. * Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. * Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. * Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. * Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
-
-
Item type: Book Section ID code: 26750 Dates: DateEventSeptember 2005PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > Literature (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova Date deposited: 16 Aug 2010 13:06 Last modified: 05 Jul 2024 11:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26750