Alias Grace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Atwood
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1830’s to the 1870’s
- Setting: Canada
- Principal Characters: Grace Marks, Mary Whitney, Thomas Kinnear, Nancy Montgomery, James McDermott, James Walsh, Old Jeremiah, Simon Jordan, Rachel Humphrey
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Family or family life, Psychology or psychologists, Mental illness, Quilts or quilting, Women, Working class, Human behavior
- Locales: Kingston, Canada
Margaret Atwood is a novelist known for vividly imagining the present—and even the future—in her fiction. She is a writer who works primarily with the modern Canadian experience, who writes carefully crafted stories and novels describing the contemporary Canadian “wilderness” of social and sexual politics. In Alias Grace, however, Atwood shifts her perspective to the Canadian past and to the specific historical case of one woman in that past. Thus, the novel is a prime example of the historical novel, as Atwood makes of her novel (among other things) a study of history,...
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