The Yellow Wallpaper (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Golden, Catherine. “‘Overwriting’ the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell’s Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 144-58.

  Golden examines the relationships between Mitchell’s rest cure, Gilman’s fiction and nineteenth-century women.

• Hedges, Elaine R. “Out at Last?: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ after Two Decades of Feminist Criticism,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 222-33.

  Hedges provides an overview of feminist criticism of “The Yellow Wallpaper” since the story’s rediscovery in the 1970s.

• Jacobus, Mary. “An Unnecessary Maze of Sign-Readings,” in Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 229-48.

  Jacobus discusses the validity of Freudian and feminist readings of the story.

• Karpinski, Joanne B. An introduction to Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall & Co., 1992, pp. 1-16.

  Karpinski discusses Gilman’s life and work and provides a brief introduction to the articles included in the volume.

• Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond, Penguin, 1991, 413 p.

  This biography of Gilman provides detailed information about the author’s life as well as her writings.

• Shumaker, Conrad. “Too Terribly Good to Be Printed”: Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in American Literature, Vol. 57, no. 4, 1985, pp. 588-99.

  Shumaker presents a reading of “The Yellow Wallpaper” in the context of the treatment of women in the nineteenth century.

• Shumaker, Conrad. “Realism, Reform, and the Audience: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Unreadable Wallpaper,” in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 47, no. 1, spring, 1991, pp. 81- 93.

  Discussion of the elements of realism and reform in “The Yellow Wallpaper.”