{"product_id":"9783640174454","title":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's \"The Yellow Wallpaper\". An analysis","description":"Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Seminar des 2. Studienabschnitts, language: English, abstract: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis paper seeks to shed light upon Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" (1892)  - a text that has become an American feminist classic  and has been interpreted as a 'transformed autobiography' (Shulman, xix), as a 'journalistic\/clinical account of a woman's gradual descent into madness' (Bak, 39), and in multiple ways as a 'critique of gender relations' (Shulman, xix). It is a 'bitter story', as Ann J. Lane describes it, 'of a young woman driven to insanity by a loving husband-doctor, who, with the purest motives, imposed Mitchell's \"rest cure\"' (Lane, vii).  The narrator of the story is diagnosed as suffering from a 'temporary nervous depression' (W, 4), which is today known as 'postpartum depression', that is, a depression caused by profound hormonal changes after childbirth.  Written some five years after the author herself, following the birth of her first child, became 'a mental wreck' in need of a 'rest cure', \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" is a fictionalized account of Gilman's own subjection to the rest cure of Silas Weir Mitchell, whose mode of treatment so notoriously typified conventional late Victorian doctoring of women .","brand":"GRIN Verlag GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46464991396081,"sku":"9783640174454","price":18.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9783640174454_p0.jpg?v=1785948006","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783640174454","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}