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  • "Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

    Creator:
    Boulware, Taylor J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as Critique of Second Wave Feminism”; Lucy M. Freibert’s “Control