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Record Nr.

UNINA9910661397303321

Autore

Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-975300-8

1-282-88810-2

9786612888106

0-19-975323-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

813.4

813/.4

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Feminists - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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."

Sommario/riassunto

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