Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Tuttle, Jennifer S.; Kessler, Carol Farley

• ISBN13: 9780814211441
• ISBN10: 0814211445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-28
• Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr

Summary

During her lifetime, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a popular writer, public speaker, and social reformer whose literary interests ranged from short stories, novels, and nonfiction philosophical studies to poetry, newspaper columns, plays, and many other genres. Though she fell into obscurity after her death, there has been a resurgence of interest in Gilman's works among literary scholars.

Author Biography

Jennifer S. Tuttle is associate professor of English and Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature Health at the University of New England, where she serves as Faculty Director, Maine Women Writers Collection; she also coedits Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Carol Farley Kessler is professor emerita of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at Penn State-Brandywine, and has also published on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and U.S. women's utopian writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Biographical and Critical Overviews
ôthat pure New England stockö: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Construction of Identity	p. 27
Looking Backward: Rereading Gilman in the Early Twenty-First Century	p. 44
New Texts
The Torn Voice in ôThe Giant Wistariaö and ôThe Unnatural Motherö	p. 69
An ôAbsent Motherö: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mag-Marjorie, and the Politics of Maternal Responsibility	p. 85
Turning ôThe Balsam Firö into Mag-Marjorie: Generic Transposition in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Imaginative Economy	p. 103
ôThe Same Revulsion against Them Allö: Ida Tarbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Suffrage Dialogue	p. 122
Doing It ôman-fashionö: Gender Performance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Unpunished	p. 140
New Contexts
ôThere are things in that paper that nobody knows but meö: An Alternative Reading of Neurasthenia	p. 161
The Yellow Newspaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Sensational Journalism	p. 180
The Madwoman's Other Sisters: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gloria Naylor, and the Re-Inscription of Loss	p. 200
Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 222
Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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