Gina Wisker is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Bath, professor emeritus at the University of Brighton and lecturer in literature at Open University. She has authored over 140 articles and authored or edited 27 books, including Margaret Atwood, an Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction (2012), Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction (2016) and Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns (2022).

• Introduction Gina Wisker Part I Early Work: The Edible Woman and Alias GraceLorna 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 CenturyPart 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 KnowledgeLaura-Jane Devanny Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Literal Posthuman: Atwood’s Paradice Project Sarah Wagstaffe Memory, Mourning and Nostalgia in Oryx and CrakeSarah Worgan Surplus Life in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and CrakePart III The Testaments Coral Ann Howells How Gilead Fell: An Ecocultural Reading of The TestamentsBlanka Grzegorczyk Childhood Rites and Rights in The TestamentsSally McLuckie Embracing the Witch: The Influence of Spiritual Feminism in Aunt Lydia’s Transformation from Witch to GoddessJade Hinchliffe Reading Atwood’s Feminist Dystopian Fiction Alongside Feminist Surveillance Studie´sPart IV Later and Diverse Work: Hag-Seed, Music, Illustrated Texts and Poetry Jessica Gildersleeve and Laurie Johnson The Abuses of Shakespeare: Hag-SeedRobin Elliott Margaret Atwood and MusicDunja 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 FictionHelene Staveley Empowering the Inner Nitwit: Margaret Atwood for KidsGina 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

Gina Wisker is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Bath, professor emeritus at the University of Brighton and lecturer in literature at Open University. She has authored over 140 articles and authored or edited 27 books, including Margaret Atwood, an Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction (2012), Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction (2016) and Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns (2022).

• Introduction Gina Wisker Part I Early Work: The Edible Woman and Alias GraceLorna 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 CenturyPart 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 KnowledgeLaura-Jane Devanny Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Literal Posthuman: Atwood’s Paradice Project Sarah Wagstaffe Memory, Mourning and Nostalgia in Oryx and CrakeSarah Worgan Surplus Life in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and CrakePart III The Testaments Coral Ann Howells How Gilead Fell: An Ecocultural Reading of The TestamentsBlanka Grzegorczyk Childhood Rites and Rights in The TestamentsSally McLuckie Embracing the Witch: The Influence of Spiritual Feminism in Aunt Lydia’s Transformation from Witch to GoddessJade Hinchliffe Reading Atwood’s Feminist Dystopian Fiction Alongside Feminist Surveillance Studie´sPart IV Later and Diverse Work: Hag-Seed, Music, Illustrated Texts and Poetry Jessica Gildersleeve and Laurie Johnson The Abuses of Shakespeare: Hag-SeedRobin Elliott Margaret Atwood and MusicDunja 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 FictionHelene Staveley Empowering the Inner Nitwit: Margaret Atwood for KidsGina 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

Gina Wisker is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Bath, professor emeritus at the University of Brighton and lecturer in literature at Open University. She has authored over 140 articles and authored or edited 27 books, including Margaret Atwood, an Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction (2012), Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction (2016) and Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns (2022).

• Introduction Gina Wisker Part I Early Work: The Edible Woman and Alias GraceLorna 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 CenturyPart 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 KnowledgeLaura-Jane Devanny Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Literal Posthuman: Atwood’s Paradice Project Sarah Wagstaffe Memory, Mourning and Nostalgia in Oryx and CrakeSarah Worgan Surplus Life in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and CrakePart III The Testaments Coral Ann Howells How Gilead Fell: An Ecocultural Reading of The TestamentsBlanka Grzegorczyk Childhood Rites and Rights in The TestamentsSally McLuckie Embracing the Witch: The Influence of Spiritual Feminism in Aunt Lydia’s Transformation from Witch to GoddessJade Hinchliffe Reading Atwood’s Feminist Dystopian Fiction Alongside Feminist Surveillance Studie´sPart IV Later and Diverse Work: Hag-Seed, Music, Illustrated Texts and Poetry Jessica Gildersleeve and Laurie Johnson The Abuses of Shakespeare: Hag-SeedRobin Elliott Margaret Atwood and MusicDunja 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 FictionHelene Staveley Empowering the Inner Nitwit: Margaret Atwood for KidsGina 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