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"...
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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 arriva
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Charlotte Comes of Age; 2. Walter Enters; 3. A Pullback 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"; Notes; Index
