Word: atwood
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...1960s, Atwood studied the Puritans under former Cabot Professor of American Literature Perry Miller--to whom she dedicated the novel...
...other interviews, Atwood has explained that she chose to set The Handmaid's Maid at Harvard because of its connection to early Puritan America. Harvard was originally founded to train Puritan ministers...
...roots of totalitarianism in America are found, I discovered, in the theocracy of the 17th Century," Atwood once told a reporter...
...literary device, Faery says the Harvard setting works to Atwood's advantage, providing a secret symbolic treat for those readers who recognize it, but allowing the book to remain vital to those...
Released one year after 1984 had come and gone peacefully, despite George Orwell's frightening predictions, Atwood created a cautionary tale for the future...