{"product_id":"charlotte-perkins-gilman-novels-stories-poems-loa-356-isbn-9781598537193","title":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories \u0026 Poems (LOA #356)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA definitive edition of the groundbreaking feminist fiction of a nineteenth century pioneer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibrary of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story\u003cb\u003e “The Yellow Wall-Paper.”\u003c\/b\u003e The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman’s mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism and includes a virtuoso series of stories written in imitation of the most acclaimed authors of her day. The utopian novels \u003cb\u003eHerland\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWith Her in Ourland\u003c\/b\u003e—about\u003cbr\u003ea remote and isolated society of women—are pioneering works of speculative fiction and still-incisive commentaries on the politics of gender. Gilman was known to her contemporaries first and foremost as a poet, and this volume brings together her collection \u003cb\u003eIn This Our World\u003c\/b\u003e with more than fifty other poems, many written in support of suffrage and other causes.\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman \u003c\/b\u003ewas born 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. In the early 1890s, she began publishing poems and stories, including “The Yellow Wall-Paper” in 1892, and became a lecturer on labor, feminism, reform, and suffrage. From 1909 to 1916 she wrote and edited the monthly magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Forerunner\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she published the novels\u003ci\u003e Herland \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWith Her in Ourland\u003c\/i\u003e. With Jane Addams she founded the Woman’s Peace Party in 1915. After treatments for cancer failed, she took her own life in 1935.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Bendixen \u003c\/b\u003eteaches at Princeton University and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. He has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the American Short Story\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302824235237,"sku":"NP9781598537192","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598537192_ae952caf-d6e8-4535-a393-c73e1067e63f.jpg?v=1742929105","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/charlotte-perkins-gilman-novels-stories-poems-loa-356-isbn-9781598537193","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}