Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Golden, Catherine J.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper : A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

List of Illustrations xii Annotation and Footnotes xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1(8) I: Contexts Contextual Overview 9(8) Chronology 17(9) Contemporary Documents 26(45) Selected Letters 26(2) From Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Letter to Martha Luther Lane, 1890 26(1) William Dean Howells, Letter to Horace E. Scudder, 1890 27(1) Horace E. Scudder, Letter to Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 1890 27(1) Literary Context 28(24) Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart," The Pioneer (1843) 28(4) Drum Alice James, The Diary of Alice James (posthumously published in 1934) 32(2) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Through This," Kate Field's Washington (1893) 34(3) Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," Vogue (1894) 37(2) Selected poems from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, In This Our World (3rd edn, 1898) 39(6) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?," forerunner (1913) 45(2) Drum Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935) 47(5) Cultural Context 52(5) From Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home (1869) 52(3) From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (4th edn, 1878) 55(2) From Sylvanus Stall, What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897) 57(1) Scientific Context 57(14) From Edward H. Clarke, M.D., Sex in Education; Or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1873) 57(2) From Dr. Fordyce Barker, The Puerperal Diseases: Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital (1874) 59(2) From Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them (1877) and Doctor and Patient (1887) 61(10) 2: Interpretations Critical History 71(17) Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Interpretations 81(7) Selected Reviews of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" 81(7) Initial two reviews in Boston Evening Transcript, 1892 81(1) A[nne] M[ontgomerie], "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Conservator 10 (June 1899) 82(1) Anon., "New Books and Those Who Make Them," Boston Daily Advertiser, June 10, 1899 83(1) Anon., "A Question of 'Nerves.' "/Times(?)/(Baltimore, Md.), June 10, 1899 83(1) H[enry] B. B[lackwell], -Literary Notices: The Yellow Wall Paper," Woman's Journal, June 17, 1899 83(1) Anon., "Books: Light and Serious Stories," Time and the Hour 10, June 17, 1899 84(1) Anon., "Minor Fiction," Literature (American edition), July 14, 1899 85(1) Anon., "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Literary World (Boston), July 22, 1899 85(1) Anon., "Brief Reviews," The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), January 29, 1928 85(1) Anon., "New Books in Brief Review," The Independent, February 11, 1928 85(1) From William Dean Howells (ed.), "Introduction," The Great Modern American Stories, An Anthology (1920) 86(2) Modern Criticism 88(39) From Elaine R. Hedges, "Afterword" to The Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press edition, 1973) 88(3) From Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) 91(1) From Annette Kolodny, "A Map for Rereading" (1980) 92(2) From Mary Jacobus, "An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading" (1986) 94(2) From Janice Haney-Peritz, "Monumental Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper' " (1986) 96(3) From Walter Benn Michaels, "Introduction," The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (1987) 99(2) From Catherine J. Golden, "The Writing of 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Double Palimpsest" (1989) 101(4) From Susan Lanser, "Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and the Politics of Color in America" (1989) 105(3) From Tom Lutz, American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History (1991) 108(3) From Jonathan Crewe, "Queering The Yellow Wallpaper? Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Politics of Form" (1995) 111(3) From Ann Heilmann, "Overwriting Decadence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oscar Wilde, and the Feminization of Art in 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' " (2000) 114(3) From Marty Roth, "Gilman's Arabesque Wallpaper" (2001) 117(4) From Guiyou Huang, "The Use of Audiovisual Material as an Aid in Teaching 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' " (2003) 121(6) 3: Text Introduction 127(4) A Note on the Text 129(2) The Yellow Wall-Paper 131(26) 4: Further Reading Story Collections 157(1) Editions with Story and Criticism 158(1) Articles 158(2) Biographical Reading 160(1) Bibliographical Approaches 160(1) Pedagogical Approaches 161(1) Books on Gilman's Oeuvre 161(1) Companion Pieces by Gilman 161(2) Index 163