The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Jan 24, 2011
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The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women’s physical and mental health. The story also has been classified as Gothic fiction and horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of first person journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house that he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from him, so that she can recuperate from what he calls a “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency,” a diagnosis common to women in that period. Her husband controls her access to the rest of the house. In the end, she imagines that there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper, and comes to believe that she is one of them. She locks herself in the room, now the only place where she feels safe, refusing to leave when the summer rental is up. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781617202063
    Publication Date
    January 24, 2011
    Publisher
    Wilder Publications
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 1892
    Page Count
    37
    Words Per Page
    165
    Audience
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