Herland and Related Writings (1915)

ISBN-13: 9781551119878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 275 str.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Opis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's most famous novel makes a sardonic commentary on American culture through its depiction of a society without men.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Herland

Related Writings

Fiction

• “Five Girls” (1894)
  “The Unnatural Mother” (1895)
  “When I Was a Witch” (1910)
  “Bee Wise” (1913)

Verse

• “She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping” (1889)
  “Females” (1892)

Nonfiction

• From Women and Economics (1898)
  From A Woman’s Utopia (1907)
  From “Effect of Literature upon the Mind” (1912)
  “Imprisonment for Life” (1912)
  “As to Parthenogenesis and Humanity” (1916)
  From His Religion and Hers (1923)
  From The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935)

Materials That Appeared in The Forerunner in 1915, alongside Herland

• “Standardizing Towns” (February 1915)
  “War-Maids and War-Widows” (March 1915)
  From The Dress of Women (May 1915)
  “Birth Control” (July 1915)
  “Full Motherhood” (October 1915)
  “Having Faith in Evolution” (November 1915)
  “Looking Across” (December 1915)

From With Her in Ourland (1916), the Sequel to Herland

Appendix A: Travel and Nature Writing

1. From George Alsop, Character of the Province of Mary-Land (1666)
2. From John Muir, The Yosemite (1912)

Appendix B: Social Theories Addressed in Herland

1. Edward Bellamy, “Socialism and Nationalism” (1894)
2. From Josephine Tozier, “The Montessori Schools in Rome” (1911)
3. Sir Almroth E. Wright, “Suffrage Fallacies” (1912)

Appendix C: Scientific and Eugenic Theories Addressed in Herland

1. From Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)
2. Francis Galton, “Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims” (1904)
3. From Lester Frank Ward, “Our Better Halves” (1888)

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