A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Val Gough and Jill Rudd
Abstract
Almost all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow Wallpaper. The focus of this essay collection is Gilman's utopianism. Her best-known and critically addressed novel is Herland, and several contributors revisit it in order to deepen our understanding of the complexity of Gilman's utopian vision. The lesser-known Moving the Mountain – deserving of more attention than it has received – is the subject of a full essay, and other essays explore utopian ... More
Almost all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow Wallpaper. The focus of this essay collection is Gilman's utopianism. Her best-known and critically addressed novel is Herland, and several contributors revisit it in order to deepen our understanding of the complexity of Gilman's utopian vision. The lesser-known Moving the Mountain – deserving of more attention than it has received – is the subject of a full essay, and other essays explore utopian ideas in Gilman's short stories.
Keywords:
utopianism,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Yellow Wallpaper,
Moving the Mountain,
short stories
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1998 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780853235910 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2014 |
DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780853235910.001.0001 |
