Research Catalog

Title

The yellow wall-paper, Herland, and selected writings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; edited with an introduction and notes by Denise D. Knight.

Author

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2009, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Knight, Denise D., 1954-

Description

xxx, 353 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

A collection of fiction and poetry from a major feminist voice in American literature. Sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustration with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper," Gilman also wrote Herland, a cunning, wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive, environmentally conscious country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Herland, the yellow wall-paper, and selected writings
• Penguin classics.

Alternative Title

• Herland, the yellow wall-paper, and selected writings
• Yellow wallpaper, Herland, and selected writings

Subject

• Feminism > Literary collections
• Utopias
• Women > Literary collections

Note

• Originally published: Herland, The yellow wall-paper, and selected writings. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxviii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Herland -- The unexpected -- the giant wistaria -- An extinct angel -- The yellow wall-paper -- The rocking-chair -- Through this -- The boys and the butter -- Mrs. Beazley's deeds -- Turned -- Old water -- Making a change -- Mrs. Elder's idea -- The chair of English -- Bee wise -- Dr. Clair's place -- Joan's defender -- The vintage -- The unnatural mother -- One girl of many -- In duty bound -- On the Pawtuxet -- She walketh veiled and sleeping -- An obstacle -- Similar cases -- A conservative -- A moonrise -- Too much -- To the young wife -- Birth -- Seeking -- Closed doors -- The purpose -- Locked inside -- The artist -- More females of the species -- Matriatism.

ISBN

• 9780143105855 (pbk.)
• 014310585X (pbk.)

OCLC

318411295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library