Charlotte Perkins Gilman : new texts, new contexts /

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarship in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the author and her work. Volume contributors consi...

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Other Authors: Kessler, Carol Farley, Tuttle, Jennifer S., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Biographical and critical overviews. "That pure New England stock" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the construction of identity / Denise D. Knight ; Looking backward : rereading Gilman in the early twenty-first century / Catherine J. Golden
  • Part II. New texts. The torn voice in "The giant wistaria" and "The unnatural mother" / Jill Rudd ; An "absent mother" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'Mag-Marjorie, ' and the politics of maternal responsibility / Charlotte J. Rich ; Turning "The balsam fir" into 'Mag-Marjorie' : generic transposition in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's imaginative economy / Frederick Wegener ; The same revulsion against them all" : Ida Tarbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's suffrage dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane ; Doing it "man-fashion" : gender performance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Unpunished' / Jill Bergman
  • Part III. New contexts. "There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me" : an alternative reading of neurasthenia / Jennifer Lunden ; The yellow newspaper : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and sensational journalism / Sari Edelstein ; The madwoman's other sisters : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gloria Naylor, and the re-inscription of loss / Caroline Brown ; Feminist humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.