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

• Autore: Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.4; 813/.4
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century; Feminists - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Wild unrest
• ISBN: 0-19-975300-8; 1-282-88810-2; 9786612888106; 0-19-975323-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910661397303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II