Jennifer Tuttle publishes article in the journal ‘Western American Literature’

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health and professor of English, published the essay "'51С»Æ³µ Innocent' in the Land of Sunshine: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and California" in Western American Literature, the premiere journal on literatures of the U.S. West.

Tuttle's essay, which draws on fifteen years of archival research, provides new and significant evidence of Gilman's California orientation, makes sense of her contradictory attitudes toward the Golden State, and argues that a western regional framework is necessary to understand the life and work of this important early feminist author.

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