Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts
edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight contributions by Melody Graulich, Joanne B. Karpinski, Janice J. Kirkland, Lisa A. Long, Mary M. Moynihan, Denise D. Knight, Cynthia J. Davis, Gary Scharnhorst, Jennifer S. Tuttle, Monika Elbert, Lawrence J Oliver, Charlotte Rich and Judith A Allen
University of Alabama Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8179-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1386-9 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5072-7 Library of Congress Classification PS1744.G57Z6 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 818.409
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia J. Davis is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and author of Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915.
Denise D. Knight is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction.
REVIEWS
“This collection makes a distinct contribution to Gilman studies in expanding and complicating our understanding of Gilman within a diverse array of contexts and contemporaries. . . . Coverage includes both British and American, male and female; United States--East, Midwest, and West; socio-intellectual and literary.”
—Carol F. Kessler, author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress toward Utopia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
1. Introduction 000
2. The Two Mrs. Stetsons and The "Romantic Summer"
Cynthia J. Davis 000
3. When the Marriage of True Minds Admits Impediments: Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells
Joanne B. Karpinski 000
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman v. Ambrose Bierce: The Literary
Politics of Gender in Fin-de-Siècle California
Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst 000
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the
Practice of Ethical Journalism
Denise D. Knight 000
6. "The Overthrow" of Gynaecocentric Culture: Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Lester Frank Ward
Judith A. Allen 000
7. Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Shaw in Suffolk: Animadversions and
Obstacles
Janice J. Kirkland 000
8. The Sins of the Mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Covert
Alliance with Catharine Beecher
Monika Elbert 000
9. Gilman's The Crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian:
Intertextuality and "Woman's Manifest Destiny
Jennifer S. Tuttle 000
10. Creating Great Women: Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
Melody Graulich 000
11. From Near-Dystopia to Utopia: A Source for Herland in Inez
Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island
Charlotte Rich 000
12. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With Her in Ourland: Herland meets
Heterodoxy
Lisa A. Long 000
13. "All is not sexuality that looks it": Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Karen Horney on Freudian Psychoanalysis
Mary M. Moynihan 000
Bibliography 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature United States History 19th century, Women and literature United States History 20th century, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Friends and associates, American literature 19th century History and criticism, American literature 20th century History and criticism, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Contemporaries, United States Intellectual life, Sex role in literature
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries: Literary and Intellectual Contexts
edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight contributions by Melody Graulich, Joanne B. Karpinski, Janice J. Kirkland, Lisa A. Long, Mary M. Moynihan, Denise D. Knight, Cynthia J. Davis, Gary Scharnhorst, Jennifer S. Tuttle, Monika Elbert, Lawrence J Oliver, Charlotte Rich and Judith A Allen
University of Alabama Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8179-0 Cloth: 978-0-8173-1386-9 Paper: 978-0-8173-5072-7
Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia J. Davis is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and author of Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915.
Denise D. Knight is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction.
REVIEWS
“This collection makes a distinct contribution to Gilman studies in expanding and complicating our understanding of Gilman within a diverse array of contexts and contemporaries. . . . Coverage includes both British and American, male and female; United States--East, Midwest, and West; socio-intellectual and literary.”
—Carol F. Kessler, author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress toward Utopia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
1. Introduction 000
2. The Two Mrs. Stetsons and The "Romantic Summer"
Cynthia J. Davis 000
3. When the Marriage of True Minds Admits Impediments: Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells
Joanne B. Karpinski 000
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman v. Ambrose Bierce: The Literary
Politics of Gender in Fin-de-Siècle California
Lawrence J. Oliver and Gary Scharnhorst 000
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Randolph Hearst, and the
Practice of Ethical Journalism
Denise D. Knight 000
6. "The Overthrow" of Gynaecocentric Culture: Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Lester Frank Ward
Judith A. Allen 000
7. Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Shaw in Suffolk: Animadversions and
Obstacles
Janice J. Kirkland 000
8. The Sins of the Mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Covert
Alliance with Catharine Beecher
Monika Elbert 000
9. Gilman's The Crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian:
Intertextuality and "Woman's Manifest Destiny
Jennifer S. Tuttle 000
10. Creating Great Women: Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
Melody Graulich 000
11. From Near-Dystopia to Utopia: A Source for Herland in Inez
Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island
Charlotte Rich 000
12. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With Her in Ourland: Herland meets
Heterodoxy
Lisa A. Long 000
13. "All is not sexuality that looks it": Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Karen Horney on Freudian Psychoanalysis
Mary M. Moynihan 000
Bibliography 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature United States History 19th century, Women and literature United States History 20th century, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Friends and associates, American literature 19th century History and criticism, American literature 20th century History and criticism, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Contemporaries, United States Intellectual life, Sex role in literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC