Very Different Story Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Name: Very Different Story Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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ISBN: 9780853235910

ISBN-10: 0853235910

ISBN-13: 9780853235910

Edition: 1998

Authors: Val Gough, Gillian Rudd, Gillian Rudd

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The main focus of this essay collection is Gilman's utopianism, but there are examinations, too, of Gilman and issues of women's health, and of domestic labour in her work, but all of them provide a valuable context in which to study her fiction.

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.53" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gillian Rudd is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool



Abbreviations


Acknowledgements


Contributors


Introduction



Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Journey from Within



Rewriting Male Myths: Herland and the Utopian Tradition



Pockets of Resistance: Some Notes Towards an Exploration of Gender and Genre Boundaries in Herland



Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Women's Health: 'The Long Limitation



The Sins of the Innocent: Breaking the Barriers of Role Conflict



Utopian Fictions and Political Theories: Domestic Labour in the Work of Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Morris



Gender and Industry in Herland: Trees as a Means of Production and Metaphor



Herland: Definitive Ecofeminist Fiction?



'In the Twinkling of an Eye': Gilman's Utopian Imagination



'Once There Was a Pig ... Does not Interest': Gilman's Desire for Narrative Control



Spinster of Dreams, Weaver of Realities



Bibliography


Index