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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries : literary and intellectual contexts / edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight.

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalismPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.Description: xvii, 251 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0817313869 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817350721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.409 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1744.G57 Z6 2004
Incomplete contents:
The two Mrs. Stetsons and the "romantic summer" / Cynthia J. Davis -- When the marriage of true minds admits impediments : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells / Joanne B. Karpinski -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman v. Ambrose Bierce : the literary politics of gender in fin-de-siecle California / Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the practice of ethical journalism / Denise D. Knight -- "The Overthrow" of gynaecocentric culture : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Lester Frank Ward / Judith A. Allen -- Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Shaw in Suffolk : animadversions and obstacles / Janice J. Kirkland -- The sins of the mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's covert alliance with Catharine Beecher / Monika Elbert -- Gilman's The crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian : intertextuality and "woman's manifest destiny / Jennifer S. Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. Long -- "All is not sexuality that looks it" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Karen Horney on Freudian psychoanalysis / Mary M. Moynihan.
Summary: Publisher description: By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, the cornerstone of her philosophy was the idea that "humanity is a relation." Gilman's highly public and combative stances as a critic and social activist brought her into contact and conflict with many of the major thinkers and writers of the period, including Mary Austin, Margaret Sanger, Ambrose Bierce, Grace Ellery Channing, Lester Ward, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Randolph Hearst, Karen Horney, William Dean Howells, Catharine Beecher, George Bernard Shaw, and Owen Wister. Gilman wrote on subjects as wide ranging as birth control, eugenics, race, women's rights and suffrage, psychology, Marxism, and literary aesthetics. Her many contributions to social, intellectual, and literary life at the turn of the 20th century raised the bar for future discourse, but at great personal and professional cost.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-239) and index.

The two Mrs. Stetsons and the "romantic summer" / Cynthia J. Davis -- When the marriage of true minds admits impediments : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells / Joanne B. Karpinski -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman v. Ambrose Bierce : the literary politics of gender in fin-de-siecle California / Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the practice of ethical journalism / Denise D. Knight -- "The Overthrow" of gynaecocentric culture : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Lester Frank Ward / Judith A. Allen -- Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Shaw in Suffolk : animadversions and obstacles / Janice J. Kirkland -- The sins of the mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's covert alliance with Catharine Beecher / Monika Elbert -- Gilman's The crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian : intertextuality and "woman's manifest destiny / Jennifer S. Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. Long -- "All is not sexuality that looks it" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Karen Horney on Freudian psychoanalysis / Mary M. Moynihan.

Publisher description: By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, the cornerstone of her philosophy was the idea that "humanity is a relation." Gilman's highly public and combative stances as a critic and social activist brought her into contact and conflict with many of the major thinkers and writers of the period, including Mary Austin, Margaret Sanger, Ambrose Bierce, Grace Ellery Channing, Lester Ward, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Randolph Hearst, Karen Horney, William Dean Howells, Catharine Beecher, George Bernard Shaw, and Owen Wister. Gilman wrote on subjects as wide ranging as birth control, eugenics, race, women's rights and suffrage, psychology, Marxism, and literary aesthetics. Her many contributions to social, intellectual, and literary life at the turn of the 20th century raised the bar for future discourse, but at great personal and professional cost.

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