The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the...
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Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritu...
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Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature ...
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In the following essay, Carter-Sanborn argues that Gilman's feminist antiviolence in Herland models American imperial violence.
Power is a familiar growth— &#x...
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In the following essay, Peyser argues against prevailing interpretations of Herland, claiming that “the imagination of utopia depends on the pre-existence of a utopian imagination.”
A...
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In the following essay, Doskow examines differences in Gilman's approach to the notion of utopia in Herland.
From earliest times, humanity has longed for a perfect world, one in sharp contra...
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In the following essay, Gough discusses lesbianism as Gilman portrays it in Herland.
We will be the New Mothers of a New World
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In her autobiography, Charlott...
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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 do...
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In the following essay, Gough analyzes the utopian vision and technique of Gilman's novel Moving the Mountain, and contrasts this work with her later Herland.
Many recent theorists of utopia...
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Thomas More, Sir
Sir Thomas More
Critical Essay by Kristin Carter-Sanborn
