Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" and th...
Dock, Julie Bates
A critical edition of "The Yellow Wall-paper" shedding new light on its history and reception.Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has ...
