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    Understanding Margaret Atwood
    Understanding Margaret Atwood
    Understanding Margaret Atwood
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    Understanding Margaret Atwood

    By Donna M. Bickford

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    A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes

    In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and bestselling Canadian author to a new generation and reminded Atwood's long-established readers of her uncanny prescience.

    Understanding Margaret Atwood provides an overview of the author's life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most recent novels, signposts to the connections and intertextual references between them, and attention to their critical reception. Following a biographical overview, author Donna M. Bickford studies The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and its sequel The Testaments (2019), retellings of The Odyssey in The Penelopiad (2005) and The Tempest in Hag Seed (2016), the MaddAddam trilogy (2003, 2009, 2013), and The Heart Goes Last (2015). Written in clear language and a style appropriate both for scholars and for new students of Atwood, Bickford locates Atwood's recent works in the literary, political, and social context.

    Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, essays, and poetry, which have collectively sold more than eight million copies worldwide; has received numerous awards and accolades, including multiple Booker Prizes and a PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award; and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateAug 31, 2023
    ISBN9781643364506
    Understanding Margaret Atwood
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    Donna M. Bickford

    Donna M. Bickford is the director of the Women’s and Gender Resource Center at Dickinson College, and she teaches in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her work has been published in the edited collection Staging Women’s Lives in Academia: Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces and in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice; Journal of International Women’s Studies; Clues: A Journal of Detection, and Meridians.

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