"The yellow wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman : a dual-text critical edition / edited by Shawn St. Jean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935.

Contributor:

St. Jean, Shawn, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Yellow wallpaper.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.

Mentally ill women--Fiction.

Mentally ill women.

Married women--Fiction.

Married women.

Sex role--Fiction.

Sex role.

Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, American.

Feminism and literature--United States.

Feminism and literature.

Mentally ill women in literature.

Married women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's frequently anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Most editions have been based on the 1892 New England Magazine publication rather than the handwritten manuscript at Radcliffe College. Publication of the unedited manuscript in 1994 sparked controversy over which of the two was definitive. Since then, scholars have discovered half a dozen parent texts for later twentieth-century printings, including William Dean Howells's version from 1920 and the 1933 Golden Book version. While traditional critical editions gather evidence and make an argument for adopting one text as preferable to others,"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition, edited by Shawn St. Jean, offers both manuscript and magazine versions, critically edited and printed in parallel for the first time. New significance appears in such facets as the magazine's accompanying illustrations, its lineation and paragraphing, Gilman's choice of pronouns, and her original handwritten ending. This critical edition of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" includes a full and nontraditional apparatus, making it easy for students and scholars to study the more than four hundred variants between the two texts. Four new essays, written especially for this volume, explore the implications of this multitext model.

Contents:

Introduction: why do (these) texts matter?

I. Dual texts. Timeline

Genealogy of substantive variants in early texts of "The yellow wall-paper"

Genealogy of accidental variants in early texts of "The yellow wall-paper"

Editorial emendations to the copy-texts

The yellow wall-paper: parallel texts. Fair-copy manuscript text, ca. 1890/91 ; New England magazine text, January 1892

II. Dueling interpretations. Speaking a different story: the illustrated text / Catherine J. Golden

"I am getting angry enough to do something desperate": the question of female "madness" / Denise D. Knight

Crazy writing and reliable text / Allan H. Pasco

"Another thing/Something else about that paper . . .": deconstructing texts / Shawn St. Jean.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8214-4197-3

OCLC:

613386900