Scholarship and criticism on Margaret Atwood

Joseph Andriano.

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

Bartkowski, Frances.

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

Banerjee, Chinmoy.

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

Bazin, Nancy Topping.

• "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.

Bignell, Jonathan.

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

Paul Brians.

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

Larry W. Caldwell.

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

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.

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.

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.

Eleanora Rao.

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

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.

Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro, editors.

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

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)

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.

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

Special issues

Literature, Interpretation, Theory

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