Scholarship and criticism on Margaret Atwood

Articles

ABC

Joseph Andriano.

• "The Handmaid's Tale as a Scrabble Game." Essays on Canadian Writing v 48 (1992-93) pp. 89-96.

Chinmoy Banerjee.

• "Alice in Disneyland: Criticism as Commodity in The Handmaid's Tale." Essays on Canadian Writing v 41 (Summer 1990) pp 74-92.

Frances Bartkowski.

• "No Shadows Without Light. " Feminist Utopias. Lincoln & London : U of Nebraska P, 1989. 133-58. Comparison of The Handmaid's Tale and L'Eugelionne (1976) by Louky Bersianik.

Nancy Topping Bazin.

• "Women and Revolution in Dystopian Fiction : Nadine Gordimer's July's People and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Selected Essays : International Conference on Representing Revolution 1989. Ed. John Michael Grafton. Carrollton, Ga. : West Georgia College, 1991. 115-27.

Jonathan Bignell.

• "The Handmaid's Tale: Novel and Film" British Journal of Canadian Studies v 8 n 1 (1993): pp 71-84.

Larry W. Caldwell.

• "Wells, Orwell, and Atwood : (EPI)Logic and Eu/Utopia." Extrapolation v33, n4 (Winter 1992) : 333-45.

I. Cavalcanti.

• "Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias", Utopian Studies (2000). Examines Lisa Tuttle's "The Cure" (1984); Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and The Judas Rose, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

DEF

June Deery.

• "Science for Feminists: Margaret Atwood's Body of Knowledge", Twentieth Century Literature, v.43, n.4 (1997), pp. 440-486.

C. Dreyfuss

• "Margaret Atwood: 'Respectability Can Kill You Very Quickly.'" Progressive Volume 56 (March 1992): pages 30-33.

Chris Ferns.

• "The Value/s of Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale and the Anti-Utopian Tradition." Dalhousie Review v 69 (Fall 1989) pp 373-382.

Lois Feuer.

• "The Calculus of Love and Nightmare: The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction v 38 (Winter 1997): pp 83-95.

Peter Fitting.

• "The Turn From Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home

GHI

Barbara Godard.

• "My (m)Other, My Self: Strategies for Subversion in Atwood and Hebert." Essays on Canadian Writing v. 26 (Summer 1983): pp. 13-44.

Stephanie Barbe Hammer.

• "The World As It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale." Modern Language Studies v 20 (Spring 1990) pp 39-49.

Coral Ann Howells.

• "Science Fiction in the Feminine: The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood (1996) pp 127-147, 176-177.

Linda Hutcheons.

• "From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret Atwood." in Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System, edited by Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. pp. 17-31.

Earl G. Ingersoll.

• "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Echoes of Orwell." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v 5, n 4 (1993) pp 64-72.
• "The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." in Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Allienne R. Becker. Westport: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 39-47.
• "Survival in Margaret Atwood's Novel Oryx and Crake", Extrapolation v. 45, n.2 (2004), pp. 162-175.

JKL

Susan Jacob.

• "Woman, Ideology, Resistance: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Third World Criticism." Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. Eds. Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells. 1998. pp. 26-43.

Linda Kauffman.

• "Special Delivery: Twenty-First-Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale." In Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989: pp. 221-244.

David Ketterer.

• "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies. Volume 16, Part 2 (1989): pages 209-17; reprinted in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, pp 147-154.

Sema Kormalý.

• "Feminist Science Fiction: The Alternative Worlds of Piercy, Elgin and Atwood." Journal of American Studies of Turkey, v. 4 (1996): pp. 69-77. Available at: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number4/Kormali.html .

Jacques Leclaire.

• "Feminisme et dystopie dans The Handmaid's Tale de Margaret Atwood." Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies v 21 (1986) t. 1 pp 299-308.

MNO

Amin Malak.

• "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112 (1987): 9-16.

Patrick D. Murphy

• "Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v 17 (1990) pp 25-40. (on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale).

Reingard M. Nischik.

• "Back to the Future: Margaret Atwood's Anti-Utopian Vision in The Handmaid's Tale." Englisch Amerikanische Studien v 1 (March 1987) pp 139-148.

PQR

Constance Rooke.

• "Interpreting The Handmaid's Tale: Offred's Name and 'The Arnolfini Marriage'." Fear of the Open Heart (1989) pp 175-196.

Mervyn Rothstein.

• "No Balm in Gilead for Margaret Atwood." New York Times 12 February 1986: C11.

Roberta Rubenstein.

• "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale" in Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms ed. by Kathryn Van Spanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, 1988, pp. 101-112.
• "Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm." Journal of Canadian Studies v. 20 (Spring 1985), p. 120-135.

STU

Joan Slonczewski.

• "The Handmaid's Tale." Kenyon Review v. ns8 (1986), pp. 120-4.

Karen F. Stein.

• "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia", University of Toronto Quarterly, v.61, n.2 (1991), pp. 269-279.

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James M. Wall.

• "The Human Spirit as Machine: Views of M. Atwood." The Christian Century v. 103 (December 3, 1986), p. 1083. (Discussion of The Handmaid's Tale)

Study guides

Paul Brians.

• "Study Guide: Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale."

Books

Sherrill Grace.

• Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980.

Sherrill E. Grace and Lorraine Weir

• Editors. Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983.

Shannon Hengen.

• Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1993.

Eleanora Rao.

• Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.

Barbara Hill Rigney.

• Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, editors.

• Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.

Coomi S. Vevaina & C. A. Howells.

• Editors. Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. 1998.

Kathleen Wall.

• The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.

Sharon R. Wilson.

• "Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics." Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.

Special issues

Literature, Interpretation, Theory

• "Margaret Atwood Issue." volume 6 number 3/4 (1995)