Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper

<p>In 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work <em>The Yellow Wall-Paper</em> generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text in the American literary canon.<br>This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews with incisive commentary providing:</p><ul> <li>an introduction to the political biographical and medical contexts in which Gilman was writing</li> <li>a publishing and critical history of the work with extracts from the earliest reviews through to recent criticism</li> <li>a chronology of key biographical and contextual events</li> <li>an annotated guide to further reading</li> <li>original illustrations and photographs of the author and figures related to the story.</li> </ul><p>The volume also constitutes an important critical edition reprinting the complete original text as published in the <em>New England Magazine</em> in 1892 with extensive commentary.</p>