Abstract

Abstract: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace illuminates the history and mechanisms of the ties between criminal behavior by women and multiple personalities by contextualizing the representations and perceptions of the female criminal and the criminological and medical discourses during the nineteenth century. Atwood uses the mystery around Grace's crimes as a means for her enigmatic female protagonist to have agency, but only through the veneer of her multiple personalities.

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