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| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wall-Paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2024 She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone – forbidden to leave her room. Instead of improving, she starts hallucinating, imagining herself crawling with other women behind the room's yellow wallpaper. And secretly, she records her experiences. The Yellow Wall-Paper [1892] is the short but intense, Gothic horror story, written as a diary, about a woman in an attic – imprisoned in her gender; by the story. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist novella was long overlooked in American literary history. Nowadays, it is counted among the classics. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935), born in Hartford, Connecticut, was an American feminist theorist, sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright. Her writings are precursors to many later feminist theories. With her radical life attitude, Perkins Gilman has been an inspiration for many generations of feminists in the USA. Her most famous work is the short story The Yellow Wall-Paper [1892], written when she suffered from postpartum psychosis. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper Illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2020-10-21 The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women during that period |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper Illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2020-11-16 The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published 1892 in The New England Magazine.[1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working or writing, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women during that period.[2][3][4]The narrator devotes many journal entries to describing the wallpaper in the room - its sickly color, its yellow smell, its bizarre and disturbing pattern like an interminable string of toadstools, budding and sprouting in endless convolutions, its missing patches, and the way it leaves yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches it. She describes how the longer one stays in the bedroom, the more the wallpaper appears to mutate, especially in the moonlight. With no stimulus other than the wallpaper, the pattern and designs become increasingly intriguing to the narrator. She soon begins to see a figure in the design and eventually comes to believe that a woman is creeping on all fours behind the pattern. Believing she must free the woman in the wallpaper, the woman begins to strip the remaining paper off the wall.When her husband arrives home, the narrator refuses to unlock her door. When he returns with the key, he finds her creeping around the room, rubbing against the wallpaper, and exclaiming I've got out at last... in spite of you. He faints, but she continues to circle the room, creeping over his inert body each time she passes it, believing herself to have become the woman trapped behind the yellow wallpaper. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Wild Unrest Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, 2010-11-05 In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to explore the nature of 19th-century nervous illness and to illuminate the making of Gilman's famous short story, The Yellow Wall-Paper: Gilman's journals and letters, which closely track her daily life and the reading that most influenced her; the voluminous diaries of her husband, Walter Stetson; and the writings, published and unpublished of S. Weir Mitchell, whose rest cure dominated the treatment of female hysteria in late 19th-century America. Horowitz argues that these sources ultimately reveal that Gilman's great story emerged more from emotions rooted in the confinement and tensions of her unhappy marriage than from distress following Mitchell's rest cure. Hailed by The Boston Globe as an engaging portrait of the woman and her times, Wild Unrest adds immeasurably to our understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as well as the literary and personal sources behind The Yellow Wall-Paper. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper” and the History of Its Publication and Reception Julie Bates Dock, 1998-02-27 Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized. In this first critical edition of Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper, accompanied by contemporary reviews and previously unpublished letters, Julie Bates Dock examines the various myth-frames that have been used to legitimize Gilman's story. The editor discusses how modern feminist critics' readings (and misreadings) of the available documents uphold a set of legends that originated with Gilman herself and that promulgate an almost saintly view of the pioneering feminist author. The documents made available in the collection enable scholars and students to evaluate firsthand Gilman's claims regarding the story's impact on its first audiences. Dock presents an authoritative text of The Yellow Wall-paper for the first time since its initial publication. Included are a textual commentary, full descriptions of all relevant texts, lists of editorial emendations and pre-copy-text substantive variants, a complete historical collation that documents all the variants found in important editions after 1892, and a listing of textual sources for more than one hundred reprintings of the story in anthologies and textbooks. Other documents in the casebook that illuminate the story's publication and reception histories include Gilman's successive and varying accounts of the story's history, her diary and manuscript log entries and letters pertaining to the story, W. D. Howells's correspondence with Gilman and Horace Scudder, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and his remarks on the story when he reprinted it in Great American Short Stories, and more than two dozen reviews of the story by Gilman's contemporaries. Taken together, the criticism, text, documents, and annotations constitute a rich and valuable contribution to Gilman scholarship, calling into question the feminist literary criticism that has helped to shape interpretations of a literary masterpiece. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2012-03-01 Seven charming tales explore relations between the sexes and offer witty insights from a feminist perspective. Includes the 1892 title classic, plus Cottagette, Turned, Mr. Peebles' Heart, and more. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2022-03-31 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Logan Thomas, 2011 The first volume to contain both gothic stories 'The Unwatched Door' and 'Clifford's Tower' since their first publication in 1894. Two great pieces of literature lost until now. Both stories were re-discovered by the filmmakers of The Yellow Wallpaper feature film. This Official Motion Picture book includes an excerpt from the screenplay, as well as integrated film images throughout. The Gothic Collection comprises most of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans' gothic work, with a few cross-over selections. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2025-01-21 Herland author Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s captivating masterpiece takes readers to a hidden utopia where gender roles have been redefined, a secret society where women reign supreme. In this Feminist Utopian novel, Gilman’s compelling narrative is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a sociology student who forms an expedition party. He travels with two friends, Terry and Jeff, to explore an area of uncharted land. These fearless adventurers travel to a land rumored to be home to a society consisting only of women. They enter a world beyond imagination, an isolated land untouched by the influence of men. Within this harmonious civilization, where community is essential to the all-female society, bonds of sisterhood unite its inhabitants. The society is built on cooperation, respect, and intellectual prowess. It is a land where education is paramount. War, greed, and inequality do not exist. Women bear children without men and every individual is valued for their unique contributions. The women maintain their individuality while working with others within the community to reach a consensus. The three explorers grapple with their ingrained beliefs and preconceived notions of their own male dominated society. In this poignant social critique of the early 20th century, readers are immersed in a vision of what society could be when limitations are not imposed on women. Gilman’s vivid storytelling stimulates the imagination and leaves an indelible mark on the reader’s mind. Her eloquence and insight captivating and will leave you with a renewed sense of hope and possibility. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Herland, the Yellow Wallpaper, and Selected Writings Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2016-08-20 Herland is a utopian women's fiction novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915. The genre fiction classic Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis also known as asexual reproduction. The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. Herland is a classic in literature & fiction and genre fiction, it is also an important feminist work. In addition to writing women's fiction, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer of social reform. In addition to Herland, this anthology volume also includes The Yellow Wallpaper, which is a semi-autobiographical short story also written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and is considered by many to be her best work. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2020-10-26 The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. Wikipedia |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1999 THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of The Yellow Wallpaper, in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2004 This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2014-04-15 This early work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was originally published in 1935. It is the autobiography of the American sociologist, novelist and poet who is best remembered for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Pedagogical Wallpaper Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, 2003 Charlotte Perkins Gilman's «The Yellow Wall-paper» is one of the most frequently taught short stories in secondary and college classrooms around the world. What is especially unusual about the text is the large variety of academic contexts in which the story is included. The Pedagogical Wallpaper provides educators, students, and researchers with accessible and practical approaches to the story, with an emphasis on the text as a tool for teaching. The classroom contexts address women's studies, freshman composition, literary theory, philosophy, and genre studies. In addition, the text details how to make use of a MOO space to allow students to engage directly with Gilman's story through the use of computer mediation. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Cynthia Davis, 2010-03-02 A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, unnatural mother, international celebrity, and life-long controversialist. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Poe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic D. Perry, Carl H. Sederholm, 2009-04-27 Poe, 'The House of Usher,' and the American Gothic discusses the interrelation between Poe's tale and the modern horror genre, demonstrating how Poe's work continues to serve as a model for exploring the deepest and most primitive corners of the human mind and heart. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1998 |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism John Brannigan, 2016-02-12 New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking about literature in relation to history. This study explains the development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for the theories is explored and the controversial debates about their validity in literary studies are discussed. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” from a Feminist Perspective. A Woman’s Place in a Patriarchal World Marie Schröder, 2016-11-10 Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institut für Anglophone Studien), language: English, abstract: “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives ample scope for interpretation, and therefore a great amount of (sometimes conflicting) readings emerged since its publication. As this term paper attempts to reveal the way Gilman criticizes the suppression of women in her days, the discussion will mainly include the analytical work of feminist critics. For the inquiry, the following questions will be central: 1) How does Gilman use language to criticize the patriarchal structures presented in the story? 2) In which way can the heroine’s behavior and progress be interpreted as a reflection of the rising feminist activism? 3) To what extend does the image of the woman in the wallpaper convey meaning? |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Captive Imagination Catherine Golden, 1992-01 A century of critical discussion about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic, The Yellow Wallpaper, is combined with excerpts from Gilman's autobiography and interpretations of the story's imagery, plot, and psychological significance |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" Berina Hodzic, 2016-07-21 Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to Economic Independence, language: English, abstract: In my paper I would like to examine how Gilman’s 19th century short story The Yellow Wallpaper engages with the power politics of marriage and the medical attitudes towards women in the 19th-century U.S. society. I would like to argue that in Gilman’s autobiographical story, the female protagonist, who undergoes the rest cure, escapes from the oppression through the patriarchal institutions of marriage and medicine in search of personal and intellectual independence. The realist narrative provides peculiar imagery that depicts the idea of a power structure regulated by male authority and women’s subordinate position in society. My purpose here is to give a brief insight into medical care in the 19th century but also to portray the depression and the treatment Gilman herself underwent. In doing so I would like to reflect on Gilman’s motivation for writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” and to reconstruct the social context by calling into question her nonfictional work “The Man-Made World”. The main part of my investigation will cover the analysis of the short story with the main focus being/put on the key trope, in which I will proceed chronologically. Finally, my inquiry will close with pointing out the main achievements and effects the short story had on contemporary society and readership. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The yellow wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2024-02-02 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as nervous depression. She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest. As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the room's yellow wallpaper. Her descent into madness is vividly portrayed through her journal entries, revealing a haunting journey of unraveling sanity. Gilman's writing is a poignant critique of the patriarchal norms that suppressed women's voices and autonomy during her time. The novella serves as a powerful feminist statement, highlighting the devastating effects of the rest cure and the silencing of women's inner struggles. The Yellow Wallpaper is a psychological masterpiece that continues to resonate with readers, scholars, and feminists alike. It offers a chilling portrayal of the intersection of mental health, gender, and societal expectations. Step into the haunting world of The Yellow Wallpaper and experience the eerie and thought-provoking narrative that challenges the status quo and illuminates the resilience of the human spirit. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work remains a timeless exploration of the female experience and the importance of self-expression. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a pioneering American feminist, writer, and social reformer. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gilman is best known for her influential works of feminist literature, including the short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Gilman's writing often addressed gender inequality and the stifling effects of the traditional roles assigned to women in society. The Yellow Wallpaper is a powerful portrayal of a woman's descent into madness as a result of the oppressive treatment and confinement she experiences at the hands of her physician husband. In addition to her literary achievements, Gilman was an advocate for women's rights and believed in economic independence for women. She wrote extensively on topics related to feminism, including her book Women and Economics. Gilman's legacy as a feminist thinker and writer continues to be celebrated today, as her works remain relevant in discussions of gender equality, mental health, and social reform. She played a significant role in advancing the feminist movement and challenging societal norms of her time. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Women and Economics Illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2020-02-07 Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, [1] and as with much of Gilman's writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: the economic independence and specialization of women as essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement.[2]The 1890s were a period of intense political debate and economic challenges, with the Women's Movement seeking the vote and other reforms. Women were entering the work force in swelling numbers, seeking new opportunities, and shaping new definitions of themselves.[3] It was near the end of this tumultuous decade that Gilman's very popular book emerged |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2014-05-14 It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, 2015-11-03 A masterful collection of short fiction from one of America’s greats. The centerpiece of the collection, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” tells the story of a family road trip that takes a dark turn when they cross paths with an escaped murderer. Including other great stories like “A Stroke of Good Fortune” and “A Circle in the Fire,” O’Connor’s gift for mesmerizing prose makes this a must-read. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. |
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| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Age of Magic Ben Okri, 2014-10-09 From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes. ALSO BY BEN OKRI: Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia, A Way of Being Free, Dangerous Love. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction C. Wiesenthal, 1997-08-29 How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: When I Was a Witch & Other Stories Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2023-08-29 A powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be but also people who had dreams, who were able to travel and work just as men did, and whose goals included a society where women were just as important as men. In the early 1900s this was striking and revolutionary. The stories in this collection are: 'A Coincidence'; 'According To Solomon', 'An Offender', 'A Middle-Sized Artist', 'Martha's Mother', 'Her Housekeeper', 'When I Was A Witch', 'Making a Living', 'A Coincidence, The Cottagette', 'The Boys and the Butter', 'My Astonishing Dodo', and 'A Word In Season'. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Body Project Joan Jacobs Brumberg, 2010-06-09 The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project. Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together. —The New York Times Book Review A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with character to our modern focus on outward appearance—in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Murderer Next Door Rafael Yglesias, 2010-11-16 To protect the child she loves, Molly Gray must cooperate with a killer in this critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction Molly Gray never trusted Ben Fleiss, her best friend Wendy’s abusive husband. When Wendy’s broken body is found in a dumpster, Molly is devastated—and knows exactly who the killer is. But as viscerally as Molly hates Ben, she loves Ben and Wendy’s seven-year-old child, Naomi. While awaiting trial, Ben retains custody of his daughter, and Molly soon realizes the only way to keep Naomi safe is to stay as close to Ben as possible—even if it means consoling and flattering the man who murdered her friend. Yglesias’s most suspenseful work, The Murderer Next Door is rich with startling twists and revelations hinged to uncanny psychological insight. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Great Short Stories by American Women Candace Ward, 2012-03-01 Choice collection of 13 stories includes Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat, plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1989-10-01 Known primarily for her classic and haunting story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's place in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist. Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, This is a civilized country . . . there must be men. Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper": an Analysis Verena Schörkhuber, 2008 Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Seminar des 2. Studienabschnitts, 40 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to shed light upon Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) - a text that has become an American feminist classic and has been interpreted as a 'transformed autobiography' (Shulman, xix), as a 'journalistic/clinical account of a woman's gradual descent into madness' (Bak, 39), and in multiple ways as a 'critique of gender relations' (Shulman, xix). It is a 'bitter story', as Ann J. Lane describes it, 'of a young woman driven to insanity by a loving husband-doctor, who, with the purest motives, imposed Mitchell's rest cure' (Lane, vii). The narrator of the story is diagnosed as suffering from a 'temporary nervous depression' (W, 4), which is today known as 'postpartum depression', that is, a depression caused by profound hormonal changes after childbirth. Written some five years after the author herself, following the birth of her first child, became 'a mental wreck' in need of a 'rest cure', The Yellow Wallpaper is a fictionalized account of Gilman's own subjection to the rest cure of Silas Weir Mitchell, whose mode of treatment so notoriously typified conventional late Victorian doctoring of women . |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Gilman, 2018-05-07 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Florence and Giles John Harding, 2010-03-04 A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: Moving the Mountain Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2022-10-27 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Gilman, 2016-12-07 The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story) is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. |
| charlotte perkins gilman the yellow wallpaper: The Yellow Wallpaper By: Charlotte Perkins (a Horror Short Stories) Annotated Edition Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2021-06-14 How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedContain Author Biography and overview.The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health.The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband -- a physician -- has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency; a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room's wallpaper. |
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Gilman ends “The Yellow Wallpaper” on an ambiguous note. Readers can only guess what becomes of John and the narrator. Literary critics generally agree that if the story were to …
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Wikipedia
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England …
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nov 1, 1999 · "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story written in the late 19th century, often associated with the feminist literature genre. The narrative explores the …
A Summary and Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The …
Jul 4, 2019 · ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, an 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has the structure and style of a diary.
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Short …
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jan 15, 2015 · "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 1913 article by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on why she wrote her now-classic 1892 long-form short story.
"The yellow wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oct 14, 2022 · "The yellow wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman : a dual-text critical edition by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | EBSCO
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an autobiographical short story that explores the challenges faced by women in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding …
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte …
Aug 31, 2024 · By Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I …
The Yellow Wallpaper Full Text - Owl Eyes
Gilman ends “The Yellow Wallpaper” on an ambiguous note. Readers can only guess what becomes of John and the narrator. Literary critics generally agree that if the story were to …
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Wikipedia
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England …
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nov 1, 1999 · "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story written in the late 19th century, often associated with the feminist literature genre. The narrative explores the …
A Summary and Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The …
Jul 4, 2019 · ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, an 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has the structure and style of a diary.
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Short …
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jan 15, 2015 · "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 1913 article by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on why she wrote her now-classic 1892 long-form short story.
"The yellow wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oct 14, 2022 · "The yellow wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman : a dual-text critical edition by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | EBSCO
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an autobiographical short story that explores the challenges faced by women in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding …
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte …
Aug 31, 2024 · By Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I …
