Fiona Tolan is Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction (Rodopi, 2007) and has published widely on Atwood’s work.

A valuable and necessary book for students, researchers, and enthusiastic readers of Margaret Atwood’s novels. It offers both a substantial study of her fiction and a comprehensive overview of Atwood criticism up to the present, unequalled in any other publication. Covering all relevant thematic, genre, narrative, and contextual issues, it deftly guides readers through the rich diversity of critical responses to her work.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Early Works and Early ReceptionChapter 2: A Developing Canon and Developing Themes: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, and Bodily HarmChapter 3: ‘Are There Any Questions?’: A Focus on The Handmaid’s TaleChapter 4: Spotty-handed Villainesses: Cat’s Eye and The Robber BrideChapter 5: History, Memory and Recovering the PastChapter 6: Atwood’s Dystopian Futures: The MaddAddam Trilogy ConclusionNotes Bibliography

Fiona Tolan is Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction (Rodopi, 2007) and has published widely on Atwood’s work.

A valuable and necessary book for students, researchers, and enthusiastic readers of Margaret Atwood’s novels. It offers both a substantial study of her fiction and a comprehensive overview of Atwood criticism up to the present, unequalled in any other publication. Covering all relevant thematic, genre, narrative, and contextual issues, it deftly guides readers through the rich diversity of critical responses to her work.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Early Works and Early ReceptionChapter 2: A Developing Canon and Developing Themes: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, and Bodily HarmChapter 3: ‘Are There Any Questions?’: A Focus on The Handmaid’s TaleChapter 4: Spotty-handed Villainesses: Cat’s Eye and The Robber BrideChapter 5: History, Memory and Recovering the PastChapter 6: Atwood’s Dystopian Futures: The MaddAddam Trilogy ConclusionNotes Bibliography

Fiona Tolan is Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction (Rodopi, 2007) and has published widely on Atwood’s work.

A valuable and necessary book for students, researchers, and enthusiastic readers of Margaret Atwood’s novels. It offers both a substantial study of her fiction and a comprehensive overview of Atwood criticism up to the present, unequalled in any other publication. Covering all relevant thematic, genre, narrative, and contextual issues, it deftly guides readers through the rich diversity of critical responses to her work.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Early Works and Early ReceptionChapter 2: A Developing Canon and Developing Themes: Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, and Bodily HarmChapter 3: ‘Are There Any Questions?’: A Focus on The Handmaid’s TaleChapter 4: Spotty-handed Villainesses: Cat’s Eye and The Robber BrideChapter 5: History, Memory and Recovering the PastChapter 6: Atwood’s Dystopian Futures: The MaddAddam Trilogy ConclusionNotes Bibliography