Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood / by Suparna Banerjee.
The first substantial study comparing Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, this book examines a selection of their speculative/fantastic novels from a feminist postcolonial perspective. Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake alongside Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Machine generated contents note: |g ch. One |t Frankenstein: Radical Science, Nature and Culture -- |t Re-framing 'the Science Question' in Frankenstein -- |t Rebellion, Revolution and Frankenstein -- |g ch. Two |t The Last Man: Apocalyptic Speculation beyond Autobiography -- |t Re-reading Gender in The Last Man -- |t The Last Man and (Shelley's) Art -- |t Politics, History and (Anti- )Colonialism -- |g ch. Three |t The Handmaid's Tale: Dystopian Speculation in the Feminine Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale: Gothic (Pro- )creation and Normative Gender -- |t Reading the Past, Making the Future: History-Making and Sexual-Politics -- |t The Handmaid's Tale and Feminism: Alienation versus Involvement -- |t The 'Romance' Theme -- |t The Narrative: Tyranny, Text and Resistance -- |g ch. Four |t 'Open Markets, Closed Minds': Apocalyptic Speculation in Oryx and Crake -- |t Biotechnology, Eugenics and the Apocalypse -- |t (Contemporary) Geo-politics and Oryx and Crake -- |t Dystopian Mindscapes -- |t Gender, and Beyond -- |t The Last Man and the New Humans. |
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