The Yellow Wallpaper: An Early Work of American Feminist Literature

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Cover of the book The Yellow Wallpaper: An Early Work of American Feminist Literature by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Boo Radley Press
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Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman ISBN: 1230000243502
Publisher: Boo Radley Press Publication: May 30, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN: 1230000243502
Publisher: Boo Radley Press
Publication: May 30, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

The Yellow Wallpaper is widely regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating 19th century attitudes towards women's physical and mental health. The book is presented in the first person through a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a summer home. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. 

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The Yellow Wallpaper is widely regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating 19th century attitudes towards women's physical and mental health. The book is presented in the first person through a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a summer home. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. 

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