{"product_id":"charlotte-perkins-gilmans-the-yellow-wallpaper-an-analysis-von-verena-schorkhuber","title":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's \"The Yellow Wallpaper\". An analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640174591\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640174591","offer_id":39428968415325,"sku":"9783640174591","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/bb1964d2-64e4-41a1-92fc-c543dd3c7c20.jpg?v=1777614359","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/charlotte-perkins-gilmans-the-yellow-wallpaper-an-analysis-von-verena-schorkhuber","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}