The yellow wallpaper
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The yellow wallpaper
（Bedford cultural editions）
Bedford Books , Macmillan, c1998
- us : hbk.
- us : pbk.
- uk : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-377)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is based on the 1892 "New England Magazine" text of the story. The edition includes a selection of documents designed to help students situate the story in relation to Gilman's time period and wide range of interests. Included are 19th-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights; the working classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers notebooks that reflect the sense of the changing literary scene of the time.
Table of Contents
About the Series About this Volume List of Illustrations PART ONE: THE COMPLETE TEXT Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background Chronology of Gilman's Life and Times The Yellow Wallpaper (1892 New England Magazine Edition) PART TWO: CULTURAL CONTEXTS Conduct Literature and Motherhood Manuals Women's Health and Sexuality Social Control: The Woman Question and the Race Question Movements for Social Change Literary Culture Selected Bibliography
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