The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
It was first published in 1892 in The New England Magazine. The story illustrates attitudes towards women's physical and mental health in the nineteenth century.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper by ISBN: 0860682013
Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
The Wasp Factory by Call Number: Library - Fiction F BANISBN: 0684853159The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
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On this page you will find a number of books which have a similar theme or context to The Yellow Wallpaper. Many of these books are available from the Senior Library. |
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein by ISBN: 0140367128Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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Read an article: Reading the symptoms: An exploration of repression and hysteria in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Get immediate access from a school PC, or log in - find the password) |
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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie by Call Number: Library - Adult Fiction F DREISBN: 0393960420This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. Backgrounds and Sources reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H.Page and F.N.Doubleday, discusses the supposed suppression of Sister Carrie by its first publisher. Criticism includes twelve essays that seek to identify Dreiser's literary naturalism in Sister Carrie, the sources of fictional strength in the novel and the novel's relationship to American life.
Read an article: Feminist Thing Theory in Sister Carrie.
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Abstract: The article examines feminist thing theory in the novel "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser. Bill Brown was the creator of thing theory for literary studies. It explores the symbolism of the two prominent objects in the novel, namely, Carrie's rocking chair and Hurstwood's safe. It discusses how Dreiser describes subjectivity in his novel
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre by Call Number: Library - Fiction F BROISBN: 0141339500Jane Eyre, plain and orphaned, becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall where she believes she will find happiness, but discovers that Thornfield Hall hides a dreadful secret. Jane comes from nothing but she desires everything life can offer her. And when she finds work as a governess in a mysterious mansion, it seems she has finally met her match with the darkly fascinating Mr Rochester. But Thornfield Hall contains a shameful secret - one that could keep Jane and Rochester apart forever. Can she choose between what is right, and her one chance of happiness?
Read an article: Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
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Abstract: Compares Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novella, `The Yellow Wallpaper' to Charlotte Bronte's novel `Jane Eyre,' by observing the significant resemblances Gilman's yellow room bears toward Bronte's treatment of elements in her red room. The parallelsbetween the rooms; The similarities between Bronte's John Reed and Gilman's John, the physician; Similarities in the names of characters.
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The Fall of the House of Usher by E.A.Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Call Number: Library - Fiction F POEISBN: 0142419524A man visits his friend, Roderick Usher, who lies ill in a gloomy estate. Spooky events inside and outside the house escalate into a terrifying conclusion to the physical and ancestral House of Usher. This is a must-have collection of stories from Edgar Allan Poe, legendary author of Gothic mysteries.
Click here to access an article Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets in “The Yellow Wallpaper” which discusses the Gothic genre with particular reference to The Yellow Wallpaper. It also comments on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe in this genre, including The fall of the house of Usher.
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