The Yellow Wall-Paper
Book (italiano):
<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>
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