02568nam 2200565 a 450 991066139730332120200125003211.00-19-975300-81-282-88810-297866128881060-19-975323-7(CKB)2670000000046826(EBL)602483(OCoLC)679998882(SSID)ssj0000431182(PQKBManifestationID)12145472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431182(PQKBWorkID)10456800(PQKB)11201145(MiAaPQ)EBC602483(EXLCZ)99267000000004682620100308d2010 uy 0engtxtccrWild unrest[electronic resource] Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of "The yellow wall-paper" /Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzNew York Oxford University Press20101 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-989193-1 0-19-973980-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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, thAuthors, American19th centuryBiographyFeministsUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Authors, AmericanFeminists813.4813/.4Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz1252744MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910661397303321Wild unrest2904416UNINA