Herland
E825292
Herland is a 1915 utopian feminist novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that imagines an isolated, all-female society to critique patriarchal norms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herland canonical | 2 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Alima
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellador NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Margrave NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry O. Nicholson NERFINISHED ⓘ Vandyck Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| exploresConcept |
single-sex society
ⓘ
social engineering through education ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | serial ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Forerunner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | With Her in Ourland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
ⓘ
satire ⓘ social criticism ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSequel | With Her in Ourland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | feminist utopian fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
first-wave feminism
ⓘ
utopian literature tradition ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
allegory
ⓘ
didactic narrative ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cooperation vs competition
ⓘ
critique of patriarchy ⓘ education ⓘ gender roles ⓘ motherhood ⓘ social organization ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Vandyck Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Herland trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
conflict between patriarchal attitudes and egalitarian society
ⓘ
society reproduces by parthenogenesis ⓘ three male explorers discover an all-female society ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Pantheon Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reception | rediscovered by feminist scholars in the 1970s ⓘ |
| setting |
fictional country
ⓘ
isolated all-female society ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.