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"It began this way": the synonymy of cartography and writing as utopian cognitive mapping in "Herland."(Critical essay)
From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20060322
Author:Arnold, Bridgitte
In Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi asserts that writing combines two intermingled acts--exploration and presentation (11). These acts are precisely what Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her narrator, Van Jennings, perform in Her/and. Van's narration and his conversion experience from skeptic to believer, from explorer to explored, and from would-be conqueror to conquered are essential to fully understanding the novel. While scholars such as Roger George, Marina Leslie, Darby Lewes, and Kenneth Roemer have undertaken more literal studies of mapping ...
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