Authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN-13: 9780486298573, ISBN-10: 0486298574
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: July 1997
Edition: Special Value
University of Washington, Seattle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-95), and her later explorations of "the woman of fifty." Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.
Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in 1892; since its republication in 1973, it has entered the canon of American literature and generated extensive critical commentary. This edition of the story is accompanied by a generous selection of cultural and historical documents, among them: excerpts from 19th- century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers' notebooks. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
About the Series | ||
About This Volume | ||
List of Illustrations | ||
Pt. 1 | The Yellow Wallpaper: The Complete Text | 1 |
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background | 3 | |
Chronology of Gilman's Life and Times | 29 | |
A Note on the Text | 40 | |
The Yellow Wallpaper [1892 New England Magazine Edition] | 41 | |
Pt. 2 | The Yellow Wallpaper: Cultural Contexts | 61 |
1 | Conduct Literature and Motherhood Manuals | 63 |
A Treatise on Domestic Economy | 65 | |
The Ugly-Girl Papers | 74 | |
Psycho-Physical Culture | 90 | |
"What Shall We Do with the Mothers?" | 95 | |
Winsome Womanhood: Familiar Talks on Life and Conduct | 102 | |
How to Win: A Book for Girls | 110 | |
The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs | 120 | |
2 | Invalid Women | 130 |
Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked | 133 | |
"Nervousness and Its Influence on Character" | 142 | |
"The Evolution of the Rest Treatment" | 144 | |
Maternity; A Book for Every Wife and Mother | 150 | |
The Household Monitor of Health | 155 | |
The Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease | 157 | |
"Puerperal Mania" | 173 | |
The Puerperal Diseases | 180 | |
3 | Sexuality, Race, and Social Control | 189 |
1873 Comstock Law | 192 | |
Traps for the Young | 195 | |
Address to the National Congress of Mothers, March 13, 1905 | 203 | |
"The Causes of Race Superiority" | 210 | |
American Nervousness | 214 | |
"Sexual Perversion in the Female | 229 | |
"Sexual Inversion in Women" | 236 | |
Psychopathia Sexualis | 247 | |
Pure Sociology | 252 | |
"Parasitism and Civilised Vice" | 259 | |
4 | Movements for Social Change | 278 |
The Word | 281 | |
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | 286 | |
Twenty Years at Hull-House | 297 | |
Theory of the Leisure Class | 311 | |
Women and Economics | 317 | |
"Think Husbands Aren't Mainstays" | 325 | |
"Dr. Clair's Place" | 327 | |
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 334 | |
5 | Literary Responses and Literary Culture | 345 |
"Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?" | 347 | |
On the Reception of "The Yellow Wallpaper" | 349 | |
Criticism and Fiction | 352 | |
The Notebooks | 362 | |
The Diary of Alice James | 364 | |
"The Story of an Hour" | 366 | |
Selected Bibliography | 370 |