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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Frankenstein: Radical Science, Nature and Culture
- Re-framing 'the Science Question' in Frankenstein
- Rebellion, Revolution and Frankenstein
- ch. Two The Last Man: Apocalyptic Speculation beyond Autobiography
- Re-reading Gender in The Last Man
- The Last Man and (Shelley's) Art
- Politics, History and (Anti- )Colonialism
- ch. Three The Handmaid's Tale: Dystopian Speculation in the Feminine Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale: Gothic (Pro- )creation and Normative Gender
- Reading the Past, Making the Future: History-Making and Sexual-Politics
- The Handmaid's Tale and Feminism: Alienation versus Involvement
- The 'Romance' Theme
- The Narrative: Tyranny, Text and Resistance
- ch. Four 'Open Markets, Closed Minds': Apocalyptic Speculation in Oryx and Crake
- Biotechnology, Eugenics and the Apocalypse
- (Contemporary) Geo-politics and Oryx and Crake
- Dystopian Mindscapes
- Gender, and Beyond
- The Last Man and the New Humans.