Margaret Atwood: A New Companion (Paperback)

Introduction Gina Wisker

Part I Early Work: The Edible Woman and Alias Grace

Lorna Piatti Farnell

‘You look delicious’: Consumerist Media, Gender Politics and Alimentary Disturbances in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman

Shannon Scott

Channelling Women’s Rage for Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

Part II The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam Trilogy

Gina Wisker

Salvaging Revisited: Margaret Atwood’s Feminist Eco-Gothic Challenges to the Anthropocene and her Writing on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge

Laura-Jane Devanny

Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Literal Posthuman: Atwood’s Paradice Project

Sarah Wagstaffe

Memory, Mourning and Nostalgia in Oryx and Crake

Sarah Worgan

Surplus Life in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Part III The Testaments

Coral Ann Howells

How Gilead Fell: An Ecocultural Reading of The Testaments

Blanka Grzegorczyk

Childhood Rites and Rights in The Testaments

Sally McLuckie

Embracing the Witch: The Influence of Spiritual Feminism in Aunt Lydia’s Transformation from Witch to Goddess

Jade Hinchliffe

Reading Atwood’s Feminist Dystopian Fiction Alongside Feminist Surveillance Studie´s

Part IV Later and Diverse Work: Hag-Seed, Music, Illustrated Texts and Poetry

Jessica Gildersleeve and Laurie Johnson

The Abuses of Shakespeare: Hag-Seed

Robin Elliott

Margaret Atwood and Music

Dunja M. Mohr

Refusing the Griselda Game: Fairy Tale Politics in Margaret Atwood’s “Impatient Griselda”

Fiona Tolan

Feminist Killjoys: Happiness, Feminism and Troublemaking in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction

Helene Staveley

Empowering the Inner Nitwit: Margaret Atwood for Kids

Gina Wisker

‘Poetry is the past /that breaks out in our hearts’: Loss, Revision, Diversity and Survival in Dearly (2022) and Morning in the Burned House (1995)

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index