Zusatztext 'A well-conceived! comprehensive! and useful volume that strikes a proper balance between historical contextualization! contemporary criticism! and annotation for the student reader. It will become the most ambitious and inclusive edition on The Yellow Wall-Paper to date.' - Denise D. Knight! State University of New York at Cortland' With its attention to primary materials! [this] sourcebook is a valuable resource for college and university teaching' - Elke Kinkel! European Journal of English Studies Informationen zum Autor Catherine J. Golden is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA. Klappentext This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures. Zusammenfassung This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Contexts; Contextual Overview; Chronology; Contemporary Documents; Selected Letters From Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Letter to Martha Luther Lane, 1890 William Dean Howells, Letter to Horace E. Scudder, 1890 Horace E. Scudder, Letter to Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 1890 Literary Context Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart," The Pioneer (1843) From Alice James, The Diary of Alice James (posthumously published in 1934) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Through This," Kate Field's Washington (1893) Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," Vogue (1894) Selected poems from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, In This Our World (3rd edn, 1898) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?," Forerunner (1913) From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935); Cultural Context; From Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home (1869); From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (4th edn, 1878); From Sylvanus Stall, What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897) Scientific Context; From Edward H. Clarke, M.D., Sex in Education; Or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1873); From Dr. Fordyce Barker, The Puerperal Diseases: Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital (1874); From Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them (1877) and Doctor and Patient (1887); 2: Interpretations; Critical History Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Interpretations; Selected Reviews of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Initial two reviews in Boston Evening Transcript, 1892 A[nne] M[ontgomerie], "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Conservator 10 (June 1899) Anon., "New Books and Those Who Make Them," Boston Daily Advertiser, June 10, 1899 Anon., "A Question of 'Nerves,' "/Times (?)/(Baltimore, Md.), June 10, 1899 H[enry] B. Blackwell], "Literary Notices: The Yellow Wall Paper," Woman's Journal, June 17, 1899 Anon., "Books: Light and Serious Stories," Time and the Hour 10, June 17, 1899 Anon., "Minor Fiction," Literature (American edition), July 14, 1899 Anon., "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Literary World (Boston), July 22, 1899; Anon., "Brief Reviews," The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), January 29, 1928; Anon., "New Books in Brief Review," The Independent, February 11, 1928; From William Dean Howells (ed.), "Introduction," The Great Modern American Stories, An Anthology (1920); Modern Criticism; From Elaine R. Hedges, "Afterword" to The Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press edition, 1973) From Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) From Annette Kolodny, "A Map for Rereading" (1980) From Mary Jacobus, "An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading" (1986) From Janice Haney-Peritz, "Monumental Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper' ...

'A well-conceived, comprehensive, and useful volume that strikes a proper balance between historical contextualization, contemporary criticism, and annotation for the student reader. It will become the most ambitious and inclusive edition on The Yellow Wall-Paper to date.' - Denise D. Knight, State University of New York at Cortland ' With its attention to primary materials, [this] sourcebook is a valuable resource for college and university teaching' - Elke Kinkel, European Journal of English Studies

Autorentext

Catherine J. Golden is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA.

Klappentext

This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures.

Inhalt

Introduction 1: Contexts; Contextual Overview; Chronology; Contemporary Documents; Selected Letters From Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Letter to Martha Luther Lane, 1890 William Dean Howells, Letter to Horace E. Scudder, 1890 Horace E. Scudder, Letter to Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 1890 Literary Context Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart," The Pioneer (1843) From Alice James, The Diary of Alice James (posthumously published in 1934) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Through This," Kate Field's Washington (1893) Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," Vogue (1894) Selected poems from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, In This Our World (3rd edn, 1898) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?," Forerunner (1913) From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935); Cultural Context; From Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home (1869); From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (4th edn, 1878); From Sylvanus Stall, What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897) Scientific Context; From Edward H. Clarke, M.D., Sex in Education; Or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1873); From Dr. Fordyce Barker, The Puerperal Diseases: Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital (1874); From Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them (1877) and Doctor and Patient (1887); 2: Interpretations; Critical History Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Interpretations; Selected Reviews of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Initial two reviews in Boston Evening Transcript, 1892 A[nne] M[ontgomerie], "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Conservator 10 (June 1899) Anon., "New Books and Those Who Make Them," Boston Daily Advertiser, June 10, 1899 Anon., "A Question of 'Nerves,' "/Times (?)/(Baltimore, Md.), June 10, 1899 H[enry] B. Blackwell], "Literary Notices: The Yellow Wall Paper," Woman's Journal, June 17, 1899 Anon., "Books: Light and Serious Stories," Time and the Hour 10, June 17, 1899 Anon., "Minor Fiction," Literature (American edition), July 14, 1899 Anon., "The Yellow Wall Paper," The Literary World (Boston), July 22, 1899; Anon., "Brief Reviews," The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), January 29, 1928; Anon., "New Books in Brief Review," The Independent, February 11, 1928; From William Dean Howells (ed.), "Introduction," The Great Modern American Stories, An Anthology (1920); Modern Criticism; From Elaine R. Hedges, "Afterword" to The Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press edition, 1973) From Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) From Annette Kolodny, "A Map for Rereading" (1980) From Mary Jacobus, "An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading" (1986) From Janice Haney-Peritz, "Monumental Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at 'The Yellow Wallpaper' " (1986) From Walter Benn Michaels, "Introduction," The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (1987) From Catherine J. Golden, "The Writing of 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Double Palimpsest" (1989) From Susan Lanser, "Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and the Politics of Color in Americ…