Abstract

Contents: Part 1 Margaret Atwood and the Canadian Female Bildungsroman: The coming of age of the female Bildungsroman Progress, identity and the Canadian imaginative landscape: cultural and critical contexts. Part 2 A Canadian Literary Apprenticeship: Atwood's Early Fiction: The Canadian bildungsroman: the 'birth of a nation' in The Nature Hut and Surfacing Digesting the female bildungsroman: consuming fictions in The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle. Part 3 Towards Maturity: Atwood's Later Novels: Canadian afterlives: the power and pleasure of storytelling in The Robber Bride and Alias Grace Keeping secrets, telling lies: fictions of the artist and author in Cat's Eye and The Blind Assassin Full circle: the chaos of living in Moral Disorder Postscript New departures: the life and times of the contemporary Canadian female bildungsroman Conclusions Works cited Index.

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