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List of contents
Introduction Coral Ann Howells; 1. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Margaret Atwood on questions of power Pilar Somacarrera; 3. Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction Eleonora Rao; 4. Margaret Atwood's female bodies Sarah A. Appleton; 5. Margaret Atwood and environmentalism J. Brooks Bouson; 6. Margaret Atwood and history Gina Wisker; 7. Margaret Atwood's revisions of classic texts Fiona Tolan; 8. Margaret Atwood's humor Marta Dvöák; 9. Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics Branko Gorjup; 10. Margaret Atwood's later short fiction Reingard M. Nischik; 11. Margaret Atwood's recent dystopias Coral Ann Howells; 12. The Hulu and MGM television adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale Eva-Marie Kröller.
About the author
Coral Ann Howells is Professor Emerita at the University of Reading and is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her books include Private and Fictional Words, Margaret Atwood (winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award in 1997), Alice Munro (1998), and Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities (2003). She is co-editor of Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter (2000) and editor of Where are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History (2004). She is former President of the British Association of Canadian Studies and has been associate editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies. She has lectured extensively on Margaret Atwood and Canadian women's fiction in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, USA, and India.
Summary
Offering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood's recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.
