The Crux

A 1911 "problem novel " about eugenics, by the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper."

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Dana Seitler 1

Author's Preface 23

1. The Back Way 25

2. Bainville Effects 36

3. The Outbreak 50

4. Transplanted 60

5. Contrasts 70

6. New Friends and Old 82

7. Side Lights 93

8. A Mixture 105

9. Consequences 120

10. Determination 132

11. Thereafter 145

12. Achievements 158

About the author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was the author of novels, short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. She is best known for “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and the novel Herland (1915).
Dana Seitler is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at Wayne State University.

Summary

Presents an early feminist work which brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. This title tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boarding house for men in Colorado.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Perkinsgilman, GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2003
• EAN: 9780822331797
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3179-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 363 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature