Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

A propos de l'auteur

Jill Bergman is the author of The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins and a coeditor of Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. She is a professor emerita at the University of Montana, where she taught courses in American literature and women's studies. Her work on American women writers has appeared in numerous journals and collections.

Résumé

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Jill Annette Bergman (Editeur)
• Edition: The University of Alabama Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780817359539
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5953-9
• Pages: 240
• Poids: 348 g
• Illustrations: 31 black & white figures
• Thèmes: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée