As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary author. Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer.--Publisher description.

On Margaret Atwood / --Biography of Margaret Atwood / -- "On being a woman writer" : Atwood's Canadian and feminist contexts / -- The critical reception of Atwood's works : a chronological survey / -- Whodunit : the mystery/detective story framework in Atwood's Alias grace and The blind assassin / -- From H.G. Wells's island to Margaret Atwood's paradice : bio-perversity and its ramifications / -- Margaret Atwood's poetry : voice and vision / -- "Consider the body" : remaking the myth of female sexuality in Margaret Atwood's poems in Morning in the burned house / -- Gender and genre in Atwood's short stories and short fictions / -- Atwood and the gothic / -- "This is border country" : Atwood's Surfacing and postcolonial identity / -- Hanging (onto) words : language, religion, and spirituality in Atwood's The handmaid's tale / -- Sexual trauma, ethics and the reader in the works of Margaret Atwood / -- Freed from the salt mines of virtue : wicked women in Margaret Atwood's novels / -- The "historical turn" in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin and Alias grace / -- Surviving the waterless flood : feminism and ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, Oryx and crake and The year of the flood / -- Postapocalyptic vision : flood myths and other folklore in Atwood's Oryx and crake and The year of the flood / Sharon R. Wilson. On Margaret Atwood -- Biography of Margaret Atwood -- "On being a woman writer" : Atwood's Canadian and feminist contexts -- The critical reception of Atwood's works : a chronological survey -- Whodunit : the mystery/detective story framework in Atwood's Alias grace and The blind assassin -- From H.G. Wells's island to Margaret Atwood's paradice : bio-perversity and its ramifications -- Margaret Atwood's poetry : voice and vision -- "Consider the body" : remaking the myth of female sexuality in Margaret Atwood's poems in Morning in the burned house -- Gender and genre in Atwood's short stories and short fictions -- Atwood and the gothic -- "This is border country" : Atwood's Surfacing and postcolonial identity -- Hanging (onto) words : language, religion, and spirituality in Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- Sexual trauma, ethics and the reader in the works of Margaret Atwood -- Freed from the salt mines of virtue : wicked women in Margaret Atwood's novels -- The "historical turn" in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin and Alias grace -- Surviving the waterless flood : feminism and ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, Oryx and crake and The year of the flood -- Postapocalyptic vision : flood myths and other folklore in Atwood's Oryx and crake and The year of the flood.