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The Yellow Wallpaper

CATHERINE GOLDEN (ESSAY DATE 1992)

SOURCE: Golden, Catherine. "One Hundred Years of Reading 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" In The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper," edited by Catherine Golden, pp. 1-23. New York: The Feminist Press, 1992.

In the following essay, Golden offers a comprehensive overview of criticism on The Yellow Wallpaper.

The redefinition of the literary canon has directed attention to a number of overlooked works by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women writers. Prominent among this group is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." From its first publication in the January 1892 issue of New England Magazine¹ until the early 1970s, "The Yellow Wallpaper" was virtually unknown; it found its way into only a few collections of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Essay Date 1898)
4. General Commentary
   1. Mary A. Hill (Essay Date 1980)
   2. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Yellow Wallpaper
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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