Wild unrest : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of "The yellow wall-paper" / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.

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

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880's, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. ""The Yellow Wall-Paper"" captured a woman's harrowing descent into madness and drew on the author's intimate knowledge of mental illness. Like the narrator of her story, Gilman was a victim of what was termed ""neurasthenia"" or ""hysteria""--a ""bad case of the nerves."" She had faced depressive episodes since adolescence, and with the arrival of marriage and motherhood, th

Contents:

1. Charlotte at twenty-one

2. Walter happens

3. Pull back and a proposition

4. To wed and to bed

5. After marriage, what?

6. In the care of S. Weir Mitchell

7. Return to Providence

8. To "The yellow wall-paper"

9. "The yellow wall-paper"

10. Beyond "The yellow wall-paper."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-975300-8

1-282-88810-2

9786612888106

0-19-975323-7

OCLC:

679998882