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Bibliography of Works About Margaret Atwood

Selected Criticism

Baer, Elizabeth Roberts. The Pilgrimage Inward: the quest motif in the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing and Jean Rhys. Ann Arbor, MI.: UMI, 1986.

Conner, Margaret Susan. Inside Out: eye imagery and female idenitity in Margaret Atwood’s poetry. Ann Arbor, MI.: UMI, 1985.

Cooke, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: a biography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1998.

Cooke, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: a critical companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Ed. Judith McCombs. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.

Davey, Frank. Margaret Atwood: A feminist poetics. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1984.

Fee, Margery. The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993.

Fox, James Alan. Margaret Atwood: anatomy of alienation. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1979. microform.

Grace, Sherill. Violent Duality: a study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1980.

Hart, Sandra P. Descent to the Underworld in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Ann Arbor, MI.: University of Microfilms International, 1986.

Howells, Coral Ann. Margaret Atwood. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

Keith, W.J. Introducing Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman: a reader’s guide. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989.

Kirtz, Mary Krywokulsky. Mapping the Territory: figurative modes of didacticism in the novels of Margaret Atwood. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1985.

Kuhn, Cynthia. Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood’s fiction: dress, culture, and identity. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Mallinson, Jean. Margaret Atwood and her works. Monograph. Toronto: ECW Press, 1984.

Margaret Atwood: language, text and system. Ed. Sherill Grace and Lorraine Weir. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1983.

Margaret Atwood: a reference guide. Ed. Judith McCombs and Carole L. Palmer. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991.

Nicholson, Colin. Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity. 1994.

Peters, Denise Wright. Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s novels. Ann Arbor, MI.: University Microfilms International, 1986.

Rosenberg, Jerome H. Margaret Atwood. Boston: Twayne Publishing, 1984.

St. Andrews, Bonnie. Forbidden Fruit: on the relationship between women and knowledge in Doris Lessing, Selma Lagerlöf, Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1986.

Stein, Karen F. Margaret Atwood Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999.

The Art of Margaret Atwood: essays in criticism. Ed. Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1981.

Woodcock, George. Introducing Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: a reader’s guide. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990.

Updated February 12 2015 by Student & Academic Services

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