The Yellow Wallpaper
Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes such masterful stories as "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.\ \ \ A woman gradually suffers a mental breakdown as a result of confinement and denial of her creative energies by her husband.\
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-95), and her later explorations of "the woman of fifty." Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.BooknewsGilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in 1892; since its republication in 1973, it has entered the canon of American literature and generated extensive critical commentary. This edition of the story is accompanied by a generous selection of cultural and historical documents, among them: excerpts from 19th- century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers' notebooks. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
About the SeriesAbout This VolumeList of IllustrationsPt. 1The Yellow Wallpaper: The Complete Text1Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background3Chronology of Gilman's Life and Times29A Note on the Text40The Yellow Wallpaper [1892 New England Magazine Edition]41Pt. 2The Yellow Wallpaper: Cultural Contexts611Conduct Literature and Motherhood Manuals63A Treatise on Domestic Economy65The Ugly-Girl Papers74Psycho-Physical Culture90"What Shall We Do with the Mothers?"95Winsome Womanhood: Familiar Talks on Life and Conduct102How to Win: A Book for Girls110The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs1202Invalid Women130Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked133"Nervousness and Its Influence on Character"142"The Evolution of the Rest Treatment"144Maternity; A Book for Every Wife and Mother150The Household Monitor of Health155The Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease157"Puerperal Mania"173The Puerperal Diseases1803Sexuality, Race, and Social Control1891873 Comstock Law192Traps for the Young195Address to the National Congress of Mothers, March 13, 1905203"The Causes of Race Superiority"210American Nervousness214"Sexual Perversion in the Female229"Sexual Inversion in Women"236Psychopathia Sexualis247Pure Sociology252"Parasitism and Civilised Vice"2594Movements for Social Change278The Word281Looking Backward: 2000-1887286Twenty Years at Hull-House297Theory of the Leisure Class311Women and Economics317"Think Husbands Aren't Mainstays"325"Dr. Clair's Place"327The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman3345Literary Responses and Literary Culture345"Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?"347On the Reception of "The Yellow Wallpaper"349Criticism and Fiction352The Notebooks362The Diary of Alice James364"The Story of an Hour"366Selected Bibliography370
\ BooknewsGilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in 1892; since its republication in 1973, it has entered the canon of American literature and generated extensive critical commentary. This edition of the story is accompanied by a generous selection of cultural and historical documents, among them: excerpts from 19th- century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers' notebooks. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
