Wild Unrest
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 December 2010
- ISBN 9780199739806
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 210x140 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Wild Unrest focuses on famed feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) in the 1880s and sheds light on her story "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
MoreLong description:
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, 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, they deepened. In 1887 she suffered a severe breakdown and sought the "rest cure" of famed neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. Her
marriage was a troubled one, and in the years that followed she separated from and ultimately divorced her husband. It was at this point, however, that Gilman embarked on what would become an influential career as an author, lecturer, and advocate for women's rights.
Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to illuminate the making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper": Gilman's journals and letters, which closely track her daily life and the reading that most influenced her; the voluminous diaries of her husband, Walter Stetson, which contain verbatim transcriptions of conversations with and letters from Charlotte; and the published work of S. Weir Mitchell, whose rest cure dominated the treatment of female "hysteria" in late 19th century America.
Horowitz argues that these sources ultimately reveal that Gilman's great story emerged more from emotions rooted in the confinement and tensions of her unhappy marriage than from distress following Mitchell's rest cure.
Wild Unrest adds immeasurably to our understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, uncovering both the literary and personal sources behind "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Charlottes Comes of Age
Walter Enters
Pull Back
To Wed and To Bed
After Marriage, What?
S. Weir Mitchell
After Mitchell, What?
To the Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Coda
