Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Book Overview

In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to explore the nature of 19th-century nervous illness and to illuminate the making of Gilman's famous short story, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Gilman's journals and letters, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199739803
• ISBN13: 9780199739806
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"