The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

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In the decades since The Feminist Press rediscovered and reprinted the long-lost text of "The Yellow Wall-Paper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic narrative of confinement and madness has become essential to the canon of American literature.
First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is written as the secret diary of a woman who, unable to enjoy the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a rural rest cure to remedy her "nervous condition," which is actually postpartum depression. Although she longs to write, her husband and her doctor forbid it, instead prescribing total passivity.
Locked in her bedroom, the heroine creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper, a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Told with magnificent psychological and dramatic precision, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts a woman's descent into madness, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of women's freedom and self-empowerment.
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hp lovecraft, Special Collections, Literature, Cynthia Hilden, Married Women, Psychology, Fiction, Mentally Ill Women, Sexual Role, Whitman College, Gilman, charlotte perkins, 1860-1935, Feminism and literature, Feminism and literature--united states, Women and literature, Women and literature--united states, Sexual role in literature, Married women--psychology, Married women--psychology--fiction, Mentally ill women--fiction, Sexual role--fiction, Ps1744.g57 y4534 1993, 813/.4, Literary criticism, American, Marriage, Mentally ill, Postpartum depression, Ps1744.g57 y45 1996, Fiction, short stories (sole author), Psychological fiction, Married people, fiction, Mentally ill women in the literature, Married Women in Literature, The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman), Mental Illness, Women, Library, Personal Copy, American LiteratureShowing 8 featured editions. See all 538 editions?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).
"A complete and accurate interpretation of the 1892 edition, with a new note on the text."
"Second edition of Feminist Press"--T.p. verse.
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Limited edition release specially printed for the Miskatonic Literary Society.