Scholarship and criticism on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Notice

This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.

Books

Julie Bates Dock.

• Compiler, The Yellow Wall-Paper: And the History of Its Publication and Reception (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press; May 1998; ISBN 0271017341; 192 pp.) (includes the text of the story; book reviews; and a bibliographic history of the work)

Minna Doskow.

• Editor, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland (March 1999: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, ISBN 0838637612)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

• The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935).
• A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1897-1900.
• A Nonfiction Reader, ed. Larry Ceplair (1991)

Catherine Golden.

• editor. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on the Yellow Wallpaper (1992: The Feminist Press at CUNY; 341 pp.; ISBN 1558610480)

Val Gough and Jill Rudd, editors.

• A Very Different Story: Essays on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999) (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 14) (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, England, 1998).

Carol Farley Kessler.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, With Selected Writings (Liverpool University Press; Syracuse, 1995) (ISBN 0-85323-499-X paperback; ISBN 0-85323-489-2 hardback)

Denise D. Knight.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction

Ann J. Lane.

• To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Meridian, 1991.

Sheryl L. Meyering.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work. (1989)

Gary Scharnhorst.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography (1985).

Debra Benita Shaw.

• Women, Science, and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance (Wiltshire, UK: Palgrave, 2000); 248 pp. hbk; ISBN 0333741587.

Reviews sf written by women from 1914-1968. Includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland; Burdekin's Swastika Night; Margaret St. Clair; Donna Haraway; Amazons, matriarchal societies & feminist separatism; cyborgs ....

Articles

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Frances Bartkowski.

• "Remembering and Inventing: Charlotte Perkins' Gilman's Herland", Feminist Utopias. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989, pp.23-48.

Sheila Delany.

• "Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of Charlotte P. Gilman and Marge Piercy" in Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (New York: Schocken Books, 1983): pp. 157-180.

Minna Doskow.

• "Introduction" to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland (March 1999: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, ISBN 0838637612)

Amanda Graham.

• "Herland: Definitive Ecofeminist Fiction?" in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ed. by Val Gough and Jill Rudd (Liverpool UP: Liverpool, England, 1998): pp. 115-128.

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Libby Falk Jones.

• "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias." 116-129. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.

Lisa Kasmer.

• "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology v. 36, no. 3 (199-?): pp. 1-15.

Carol Farley Kessler.

• "Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, ed. by Jane C. Donawerth and C. Kolmerten. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 126-136.

Jeannette King and Pam Morris.

• "On Not Reading Between the Lines: Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper." Studies in Short Fiction v. 26 (Winter 1989): pp. 23-32.

Ann J. Lane.

• "Introduction" to Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, New York: Pantheon Books: 1979.

Susan S. Lanser.

• "Feminism's 'Yellow Wallpaper' and the Transformation of Literature," Lecture, Feb. 11, 1988, at the Univ. of Maryland at College Park.
• "Feminist Criticism, The Yellow Wallpaper, and the Politics of Color in America." Feminist Studies v. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1989): pp. 415-441.

Margaret Miller.

• "The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias," Science-Fiction Studies, No. 30 (July 1983): pp. 191-198. compares Charnas' Motherlines with Gilman's Herland.

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Carol Pearson.

• "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience: Mary Bradley Lane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Bryant, and Mary Stanton." Future Females: A Critical Anthology, Ed. Marleen Barr (Bowling Green State University Press, 1981). pp.63-70.

Thomas Galt Peyser.

• "Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Studies in American Fiction v. 20 (Spring 1992) pages 1-16.

Lillian S. Robinson.

• "Killing Patriarchy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Murder Mystery and Post-Feminist Propaganda." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature v. 10 (Fall 1991), pages 273-285.

Marsha A. Smith

• "The Disoriented Male Narrator and Societal Conversions: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Utopian Vision." ATQ v. ns3 (March 1989), pages 123-133.

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Christopher P. Wilson.

• "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Steady Burghers: The Terrain of Herland." Women's Studies v. 12, no. 3 (1986) pages 271-292.