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This scholarly examination by Ellen McWilliams explores how Margaret Atwood's fiction engages with and challenges the traditional Bildungsroman genre. Drawing on extensive unpublished manuscripts from the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto, McWilliams demonstrates how Atwood's early works - including The Edible Woman, Surfacing, and Lady Oracle - both embrace and subvert the genre's conventions around identity formation. The study situates Atwood's coming-of-age fiction within the broader context of how women writers in the second half of the twentieth century appropriated and transformed this traditionally male-dominated literary form. McWilliams argues that Atwood's novels work against the paradigms of identity established by classic Bildungsroman narratives, offering fresh perspectives on female development and self-realisation. This book provides literary scholars, Atwood enthusiasts, and students of genre theory with critical analysis grounded in primary source material.

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Examines Margaret Atwood's early novels including The Edible Woman, Surfacing, and Lady Oracle as examples of feminist Bildungsroman.

Draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts from the Atwood Collection at the University of Toronto for original scholarly insight.

Explores how women writers in the twentieth century appropriated and transformed the traditionally male-oriented Bildungsroman genre.

Analyses how Atwood's fiction both engages with and works against traditional identity paradigms central to coming-of-age narratives.

Published by Routledge, a leading academic press specialising in literary theory and criticism.

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28 July 2009
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