Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood / / by Suparna Banerjee
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| Autore: |
Banerjee Suparna
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| Titolo: |
Science, gender and history : the fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood / / by Suparna Banerjee
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.915 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fantasy literature, English - History and criticism |
| Fantasy literature, English - Study and teaching (Elementary) | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 autho. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Science, gender and history |
| ISBN: | 1-4438-7393-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787452703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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