The yellow wall-paper, and other stories /
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, 'The Yellow Wall-Pape...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995
Oxford ; New York : [2009] Oxford ; New York : 1995 |
| Series: | World's classics
The world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) World's classics |
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| Summary: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on her own experience of depression and insanity, this edition features her Impress 'story studies', works in the manner of writers such as James, Twain, and Kipling. These stories, together with other fiction from her neglected California period (1890-5), throw new light on Gilman as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In her Forerunner stories she repeatedly explores the situation of the 'woman of fifty' and inspires reform by imagining workable solutions to a range of personal and social problems. The introduction to this edition places Gilman in the cultural and historical context of the American divided self, her Beecher heritage, and her contribution to the female Gothic |
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| Physical Description: | 332 p xli, 332 p. ; 19 cm xli, 332 p. ; 20 cm xli, 332 pages ; 19 cm xli, 332 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxvii) Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxviii) Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxv]-xxxvii) Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 019282449X (paperback) 019282449X 0199538840 (pbk.) 9780192824493 (paperback) 9780199538843 (pbk.) |