The Yellow Wall-Paper: A SourceBook and Critical Edition
In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text in the American literary canon.\ This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews with incisive commentary, providing:\ \ an introduction to the political,...
Search in google:
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.
From letter to Martha Luther Lane, 189026Letter to Horace E. Scudder, 189027Letter to Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 189027"The tell-tale heart"28From The diary of Alice James32"Through this"34"The story of an hour"37From In this our world39"Why I wrote 'The yellow wallpaper'?"45From The living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman47From The American woman's home52From Hints on household taste : the classic handbook of Victorian interior decoration55From What a young husband ought to know57From Sex in education; or, a fair chance for the girls57From The puerperal diseases : clinical lectures delivered at Bellevue Hospital59From Fat and blood : and how to make them and Doctor and patient61Selected reviews of "The yellow wall-paper"81Initial two reviews in Boston Evening Transcript, 189281"The yellow wall paper"82"New books and those who make them"83A question of 'nerves'83"Literary notices : the yellow wall paper"83"Books : light and serious stories"84"Minor fiction"85"The yellow wall paper"85"Brief reviews"85"New books in brief review"85From "Introduction," The great modern American stories, an anthology86From "Afterword" to The yellow wallpaper88From The madwoman in the attic91From "A map for rereading"92From "An unnecessary maze of sign reading"94From "Monumental feminism and literature's ancestral house : another look at 'The yellow wallpaper'"96From "Introduction," The gold standard and the logic of naturalism : American literature at the turn of the century99From "The writing of 'The yellow wallpaper' : a double palimpsest"101From "Feminist criticism, 'The yellow wallpaper,' and the politics of color in America"105From American nervousness, 1903 : an anecdotal history108From "Queering The yellow wallpaper? : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the politics of form"111From "Overwriting decadence : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oscar Wilde, and the feminization of art in 'The yellow wall-paper'"114From "Gilman's arabesque wallpaper"117From "The use of audiovisual material as an aid in teaching 'The yellow wall-paper'"121The yellow wall-paper131Books on Gilman's oeuvre161Companion pieces by Gilman161
