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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Korb has a master's degree in English literature and creative writing and has written for a wide variety of educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a story of female...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs Oscar Wilde lay dying in 1900, he commented: "My wallpaper is killing me. [...] One or the other of us will have to go." Lady Gregory, Memoirs Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the few American women writers...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionRefused by the editor of Atlantic Monthly because the story made him so miserable, Gilman's now classic story of a woman suffering post-partum depression, improperly treated with isolation and inactivity, was originally...
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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date autumn 1989) In the following essay, Golden studies the first-person diary writing of the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper," calling this "second muted text" the subtext of Gilman's story and highlighting...
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date June 1992) In the following essay, Rose contrasts "The Wife's Story" with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" in terms of the authors' "very different personal and literary responses to...
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From: The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Heilmann asserts that Gilman challenged the dominant nineteenth-century patriarchal discourse on high art by transforming her own ideas about art and politics into the narrative...
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From: Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Rippl traces the relationship among the works of Poe, Gilman, and Sir Walter Scott, particularly in regard to concepts of the grotesque and arabesque.] When located in the...
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From: “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Knight provides a biography of Gilman and detailed information about the growth of her writing abilities.] In her autobiography, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1 relates an amusing...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWallpaper hanging is used as a metaphor for changes in personality, perception and stages of life. Patters are described as having a significant impact on mental and emotional development, but are also acknowledged as...
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From:The New York Times Book ReviewIn his tales of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe gave the world a fine collection of neurotics, paranoids and psychopaths. But none are quite as deranged as the narrator of ''The Cask of Amontillado.'' His name is...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)"In this republican country," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in The House of Seven Gables, "amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning point." The force of his statement is nowhere...
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From: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work[(essay date Autumn 1981) In the following essay, originally published in 1981, Kennard investigates the literary conventions of the 1970s that enabled feminist readings of "The Yellow Wallpaper" and, in so doing,...
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From: The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Thomas discusses the motif of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a feminist critique of popular ideas regarding gender in relation to the textile arts and domestic...
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From: ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ: Studies in Honour of Robert Browning[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, De Koven notes that two different traditions of Modernism evolved in the works of male and female writers. In that context, she demonstrates how two early female writers not...
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From: Feminist Studies[(essay date fall 1989) In the following essay, Lanser acknowledges that feminist readings of "The Yellow Wallpaper" are restrictive and incomplete, positing instead a socio-historical interpretation of Gilman's story,...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the essay below, Johnson discusses “The Yellow Wallpaper” as an example of a Gothic Allergory, noting in particular its themes of rage and regression.] In the autumn of 1830, shortly before Emily Dickinson's birth,...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 28, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedEarly scholarship on the history of European colonialism was predicated on the assumption of male agency--that men were responsible for constructing the premises and methods of colonialism and for implementing those...
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From: The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper"[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Feldstein highlights the unresolved, and intentionally unresolveable, ambiguities in "The Yellow Wallpaper," focusing on the many double meanings...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 62. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Short FictionThe Yellow Wallpaper [The Yellow Wallpaper, A Novella] [as Charlotte Perkins Stetson] 1892The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: "The Yellow Wallpaper," and Other Fiction [Reader]...
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From: Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Ford considers “The Yellow Wallpaper” as an exploration of the possibility of women’s discourse, building on an earlier essay by Paula Treichler (1984; reprinted in SSC, Vol....