Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood / by Suparna Banerjee.
Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages)ISBN:- 1443873934
- 9781443873932
- PR149.F35 B36 2014eb
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Article Abstract: 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.