Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". An analysis

Name: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". An analysis
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Seminar des 2. Studienabschnitts, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to shed light upon Charlotte Perkins Gilman¿s short story ¿The Yellow Wallpaper¿ (1892) ¿ a text that has become an American feminist classic and has been interpreted as a ¿transformed autobiography¿ (Shulman, xix), as a ¿journalistic/clinical account of a woman¿s gradual descent into madness¿ (Bak, 39), and in multiple ways as a ¿critique of gender relations¿ (Shulman, xix). It is a ¿bitter story¿, as Ann J. Lane describes it, ¿of a young woman driven to insanity by a loving husband-doctor, who, with the purest motives, imposed Mitchell¿s ¿rest cure¿¿ (Lane, vii). The narrator of the story is diagnosed as suffering from a ¿temporary nervous depression¿ (W, 4), which is today known as ¿postpartum depression¿, that is, a depression caused by profound hormonal changes after childbirth. Written some five years after the author herself, following the birth of her first child, became ¿a mental wreck¿ in need of a ¿rest cure¿, ¿The Yellow Wallpaper¿ is a fictionalized account of Gilman¿s own subjection to the rest cure of Silas Weir Mitchell, whose mode of treatment so notoriously typified conventional late Victorian doctoring of women .

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 3
Number of Pages:: 36
Release Date:: 2008-09-28
Publication Date:: 2008-09-28
Publisher:: GRIN Verlag
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3640174593
ISBN13:: 9783640174591
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 68 g
Height:: 14.8 cm
Width:: 21 cm
Thickness:: 0.4 cm

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