Charlotte Perkins Gilman : New Texts, New Contexts / edited by Jennifer S. Tuttle & Carol Farley Kessler.

Part I. Biographical and critical overviews. "That pure New England stock" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the construction of identity / Denise D. Knight ; Looking backward : rereading Gilman in the early twenty-first century / Catherine J. Golden -- Part II. New texts. The torn voice in "The giant wistaria" and "The unnatural mother" / Jill Rudd ; An "absent mother" : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'Mag-Marjorie,' and the politics of maternal responsibility / Charlotte J. Rich ; Turning "The balsam fir" into 'Mag-Marjorie' : generic transposition in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's imaginative economy / Frederick Wegener ; The same revulsion against them all" : Ida Tarbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's suffrage dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane ; Doing it "man-fashion" : gender performance in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Unpunished' / Jill Bergman -- Part III. New contexts. "There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me" : an alternative reading of neurasthenia / Jennifer Lunden ; The yellow newspaper : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and sensational journalism / Sari Edelstein ; The madwoman's other sisters : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gloria Naylor, and the re-inscription of loss / Caroline Brown ; Feminist humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarship in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the author and her work. Volume contributors consider an array of texts that have not yet enjoyed adequate critical scrutiny, including Gilman's short fiction, drama, and writing for periodicals, as well as her long fiction. Similarly, incorporating careful archival, biographical, and historical research, contributors explore Gilman's life and writings--including her most famous story, "The Yellow Wall-Paper"--through strikingly new critical lenses. Other essays included here assess Gilman's place in a longer historical trajectory and within multiple rhetorical traditions, from the genre of feminist humor to the canon of African American women's literary production"--From publisher's description.

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