1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001005790403321

Autore

Hawking, Stephen William

Titolo

Superspace and Supergravity : Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop, Cambridge June 16-July 12, 1980 / edited by S.W. Hawking and M. Rocek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981

ISBN

0-521-23908-7

Disciplina

530.11

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

23-116

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954432403321

Titolo

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America / / [edited by] Jill Bergman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University Alabama Press, 2017

ISBN

0-8173-9070-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Classificazione

SOC028000LIT004290

Disciplina

818/.409

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Woman's Place Is Not in the Home - Jill Bergman -- I. Geography and Biography: Places in and of Gilman's Life -- 1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the US West - Jennifer S. Tuttle and Gary Scharnhorst -- 2. Artistic Renderings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Denise D. Knight -- 3. "The Yellow Wall-Paper" as Modernist Space - William C. Snyder -- II. Know Your Place: Limits on Women's Freedom and Power -- 4. "Perhaps This Was the Opening of the Gate": Gilman, the West, and the Free Will Problem - Brady Harrison -- 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Giant Wistaria": A Hieroglyph of the Female Frontier Gothic - Gary Scharnhorst -- III. Reclaiming and Redefining a "Woman's Place -- 6. "A Crazy Quilt of a Paper": Theorizing the Place of the Periodical in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner Fiction - Sari Edelstein -- 7. The Power of the Postal Service in Gilman's "Turned": Exposing Adultery and Empowering Women to Find a Meaningful Place - Catherine J. Golden -- 8. Eavesdropping with Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Fiction, Transcription, and the Ethics of Interior Design - Peter Betjemann -- 9. Recovering the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- or, Reading Gilman in Rome - Jennifer S. Tuttle -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A compelling critical investigation into Gilman's conception of setting and place Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment.