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Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood / by Suparna Banerjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Suparna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature, English--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature, English.
- Fantasy literature, English--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Man, the author brings out the broad convergences in the way the two authors-separated by more than a century-perceive the dialectic of science, gender and the processes of history and history-making. Both autho.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7393-4
- OCLC:
- 905859700
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