The Yellow Wallpaper - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613820321 ISBN 13: 9781613820322

Publisher: Simon & Brown, 2011

Synopsis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over the room's yellow wallpaper: "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper - the smell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell."

About this title

Book Description:

First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage.

About the Author:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Brown
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1613820321
• ISBN 13: 9781613820322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24