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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University Alabama Press, 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm.)
• Disciplina: 818/.409
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: SOC028000LIT004290
• Persona (resp. second.): BergmanJill <1963->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America
• ISBN: 0-8173-9070-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954432403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series