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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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hp lovecraft, Literature, Special collections, Cynthia Hilden, Married women, Psychology, Fiction, Mentally ill women, Sex role, Whitman College, Gilman, charlotte perkins , 1860-1935, Feminism and literature, Feminism and literature--united states, Women and literature, Women and literature--united states, Sex role in literature, Married women--psychology, Married women--psychology--fiction, Mentally ill women--fiction, Sex role--fiction, Ps1744.g57 y4534 1993, 813/.4, Literary criticism, American, Marriage, Mentally ill persons, Depression, postpartum, Ps1744.g57 y45 1996Showing 8 featured editions. View all 34 editions?
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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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