num_pages: 256
description: Almost all Gilman’s work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most widely celebrated for her darkly tragic story The Yellow Wallpaper . The focus of this essay collection is Gilman’s utopianism. Her best-known and critically addressed novel is Herland , and several contributors revisit it in order to deepen our understanding of the complexity of Gilman’s utopian vision. The lesser-known Moving the Mountain – deserving of more attention than it has received – is the subject of a full essay, and other essays explore utopian ideas in Gilman’s short stories.
language: English
title: Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
titlecomplete: Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) (Volume 14)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Liverpool University Press