What is the author's style in Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

Herland has been written in the style of an explorer's journal. Much of the information is presented in academic tones, yet the journal format is more conducive to story telling than to a structured, textbook style of writing. Vandyck's recollections of his days in Herland are presented as reminiscences, and his detailed accountings of Herland society are worked into the overall narrative. Vandyck tells his story chronologically. So the details of his knowledge build over time and they are not presented in an organized fashion. He is so charmed by Herland that he often interjects his personal feelings into his academic narrative. The prose is also characteristic of Victorian Era writing with its indirect, almost oblique allusions to matters such as sexuality, and with its tediously rapturous descriptive style.