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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Novel Aesthetics
Modern Language Quarterly, 2017Abstract Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novels and short stories are notably didactic, but they are not merely socioeconomic treatises in disguise. Her unabashedly mundane and pedantic literary style embodies a self-consciously modern aesthetics of didacticism that pervaded US literature in its years of transition between realism, naturalism,
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Colonial Revival
Legacy, 2012"It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer," writes the narrator of "The Yellow Wall-Paper." "A colonial mansion," she continues, "a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity--but that would be asking too much of fate!" (166).
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Motherly Utopia
2018This chapter examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman's concept of what she called the “World's Mother”—the selfless, nurturing woman-spirit who loves, protects, and teaches the entire human race. Gilman was known for her involvement in Nationalism, the political movement inspired by Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
1998Abstract Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to parents who separated soon after she was born. Following her own divorce from her first husband in 1894, Gilman moved to California where she began to establish her career of social reform by publishing in several literary forms and by lecturing to ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
1995Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American social philosopher at the turn of the century, a socialist and a feminist, a visionary. She was known both for her far-reaching philosophy of humanity and her radical reforms. The eminent sociologist, Lester Ward, said she was “the only person, who, to my knowledge, has clearly brought out this cosmological ...
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935)
2018Charlotte Anne Perkins was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to a family of preachers, abolitionists, suffragists and literary luminaries. In 1884 she compromised her youthful dreams of ‘world service’ for marriage, which she later skewered as unpaid ‘domestic service’.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Naturalist Playwright
This study explores Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s use of the dramatic form to challenge Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism by offering feminist adaptations of Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection. As she does in her career-defining manifesto, Women & Economics (1898), Gilman in her lesser-known plays deploys her own brand of reform ...openaire +1 more source