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Article: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland and With Her in Ourland.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1999
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Minna Doskow, ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland and With Her in Ourland. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999. 389 pp. $52.50.
EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS have no passed since the writer, theorist and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) published the first of the three utopian novels included in this collection. While interest in Gilman's work has grown considerably in the past two decades, her prodigious output, barring the gothic novella The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) is still largely ignored outside the area of utopian or feminist studies. Any opportunity, therefore, to assess how well her theories have ...