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The yellow wallpaper, 1892. Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges. NY: Feminist P, 1973. PS1744 G57 Y4

Women and economics; a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution, 1898. Edited by Carl N. Degler. NY: Harper & Row 1966. HQ1426 .G45

The home, its work and influence, 1903. NY: Source Book P 1970. HQ734 .G5

Forerunner, vols 1-7, 1901-1916. (Gilman's magazine which published nearly 200 of her short stories.)

The Man-Made World, 1911.

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; an autobiography, 1935. NY: Arno P, 1972. PS1744.G57 Z5

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Allen, Polly W. Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988.

Berkin, Carol Ruth. Private Woman, Public Woman: The Contradictions of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. New York: G. K Hall, 1992.

Ceplair, Larry. ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader. NY: Columbia UP, 1991.

Erskine, Thomas L. and Connie L. Richards. eds. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1993.

Golden, Catherine. ed. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper." NY: Feminist Press, 1991.

Hedges, Elaine. "Afterword." The Yellow Wallpaper. NY:Feminist Press, 1973.

Hill, Mary A. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: the making of a radical feminist, 1860-1896. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1980. HQ1413.G54 H54

Karpinski, Joanne B. ed. Critical essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. NY: G.K. Hall, 1992. PS1744 .G57 Z65

Knight, Denise D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a study of the short fiction. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1997. PS1744 .G57 Z734

- - -. ed. 'The Yellow Wall Paper' and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.

Lane, Ann J. The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Pantheon. 1980.

- - -. To Herland and beyond: the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 1997.

Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. PS1744 .G57 Z85

Solomon, Barbara H. ed. Herland and Selected Short Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Penguin USA, 1992.

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Bak, John S. "Escaping the Jaundiced Eye: Foucaldian Panopticism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Studies in Short Fiction 31.1 (int 1994): 39-46.

Crewe, Jonathan. "Queering The Yellow Wallpaper? Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Politics of Form." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 14.2 (Fall 1995): 273-93.

DeLamotte, Eugenia C. "Male and Female Mysteries in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Legacy 5.1 (Sprg 1988): 3-14.

Dock, Julie B. "'But One Expects That': Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and the Shifting Light of Scholarship." PMLA 111.1 (Jan 1996): 52-65.

Fleenor, Julian E. "The Gothic Prism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Gothic Stories and Her Autobiography." The Female Gothic. Montreal: Eden, 1983. 227-41.

Golden, Catherine. "'Light of the Home,' Light of the World: The Presentation of Motherhood in Gilman's Short Fiction." Modern Language Studies 26.2-3 (Sprg-Sumr 1996): 135-47.

- - -. "The Writing of 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Double Palimpsest." Studies in American Fiction 17.2 (Autm 1989): 193-201.

Hill, Mary A. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist's Struggle with Womanhood." Massachusetts Review 21.3 (Fall 1980); 503-26.

Herndl, Diane Price. "The Writing Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna O., and 'Hysterical Writing." National Women's Studies Association (Autumn 1988): 52-74.

Hume, Beverly A. "Gilman's 'Interminable Grotesque': The Narrator of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Studies in Short Fiction 28.4 (Fall 1991): 477-84.

Johnson, Greg. "Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage and Redemption in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 521-30.

Kasmer, Lisa. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology 36.3 (1990): 1-15.

Lancaster, Jane. "'I Could Easily Have Been an Acrobat': Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Providence Ladies' Sanitary Gymnasium 1881-1884." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.1 (Mar 1994): 33-52.

Lanser, Susan S., "Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wall Paper,' and the Politics of Color in America." Feminist Studies (Fall 1989): 415-441.

Lee, Weinstein. "'the Yellow Wallpaper': A Supernatural Interpretation." Studies in Weird Fiction (Fall 1988): 23-35.

Shumaker, Conrad. "Realism, Reform, and the Audience: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Unreadable Wallpaper." Arizona Quarterly 47.1 (sprg 1991): 81-93.

- - -. "'Too Terribly Good To Be Printed': Charlotte Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." American Literature 57.4 (Dec 1985): 588-99.

Smith, Marsha A. "The Disoriented Male Narrator and Societal Conversion: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Utopian Vision." American Transcendental Quarterly 3.1 (Mar 1989): 123-33.

Treichler, Paula A. "Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 3.1-2 (Sprg-Fall 1984): 61-77.

Veeder, William. "Who Is Jane? The Intricate Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Arizona Quarterly 44.3 (Autm 1988): 40-79.

Wilson, Christopher P. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Steady Burghers: The Terrain of Herland." Women's Studies 12.3 (1986): 271-92.

Study Questions

1. How does Gilman's realism differ from the realism of W. D. Howells? Does the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper recognize any correspondence between her own perception and external reality? In what ways does Gilman violate Howells's proscriptions in Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading?

2. Consider The Yellow Wallpaper as Gilman's portrait of the American woman as writer. What does the story suggest about the literary authority of the woman writer? What obstacles stand in the way of her creation? What is her ultimate work of art?

3. Compare and contrast Gilman's narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper with James's governess in The Turn of the Screw. Are both women mad? If you argue that they are, evaluate James's and Gilman's differing perspectives on women's madness.

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