An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

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An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

The yellow wall-paper

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In the decades since the long-lost text of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" was rediscovered and reprinted by The Feminist Press, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic narrative of confinement and madness has become essential to the canon of North American literature.

First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure to remedy her "nervous condition" - which is actually postpartum depression. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete 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. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman's descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.

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The Feminist Press
Language
English
Pages
62

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).
"A complete and accurate rendition of the 1892 edition, with a new note on the text."
"Second Feminist Press edition"--T.p. verso.

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New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1744.G57 Y45 1996, PS1744.G57Y45 1996

Contributors

Afterword
Elaine R. Hedges

The Physical Object

Pagination
62 p.
Number of pages
62

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL988520M
Internet Archive
yellowwallpaper000gilm
ISBN 10
1558611584
LCCN
96026697
OCLC/WorldCat
34926888
LibraryThing
5509
Goodreads
286957

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2772007W

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Work Description

Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.

Excerpts

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
added anonymously.

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