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Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood /
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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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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| 520 | |a 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 authors, as this book shows, critique the ideologies and praxes of modern science, pointing out the sexism an. | ||
| 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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