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UNINA9910661397303321 |
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Autore |
Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz |
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Titolo |
Wild unrest [[electronic resource] ] : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of "The yellow wall-paper" / / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-975300-8 |
1-282-88810-2 |
9786612888106 |
0-19-975323-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, American - 19th century |
Feminists - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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." |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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