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Herland by Thomas More

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Herland Information
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Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order,...


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Utopian Studies
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland and With Her in Ourland.(Review)
03/22/1999: 1,549 words, approx. 5 pages
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...
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Utopian Studies
Herland (unabridged) [1915].(Review)
03/22/2000: 452 words, approx. 2 pages
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland (unabridged) [1915]. Introd. Kathy Casey. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1998. iv + 124 pp. $1.50 (paperback). AN ECONOMY-PRICED EDITION of any common Utopian text is welcome in these days of hardbound-priced paperbacks. So far as I can verify, this edition...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Kristin Carter-Sanborn
13,573 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Carter-Sanborn argues that Gilman's feminist antiviolence in Herland models American imperial violence.
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Critical Essay by Val Gough
7,779 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Gough discusses lesbianism as Gilman portrays it in Herland.
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Critical Essay by Thomas Galt Peyser
7,297 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Peyser argues that Gilman's utopian novel Herland, rather than being a “playful deconstruction of patriarchal thought,” remains “ground[ed in the dominant culture.”]
 


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