The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Buch | Softcover
98 Seiten
2023 | Lothian Region
Gothic World Literature Editions (Verlag)
978-1-914090-34-9 (ISBN)
9,95 inkl. MwSt
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What happens when a woman is pushed too far? Is she able to express her thoughts and feelings, or is she forced towards the expectation of behaving 'normally' again soon?



A woman travels with her husband to an old colonial mansion after a nervous breakdown triggered by the birth of their child. Confined to the nursery and allowed only to breathe fresh air, eat well and rest in line with a regimented ‘cure’, she slowly begins to unravel at the seams. Her only distraction is writing in secret – that, and the woman she begins to see trapped inside the yellow wallpaper of the room itself. 



Isolated and breaking apart, she sets herself a task: to free the woman, and to become one with her temporary confinement.



Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' presents a harrowing, disturbing account of mental stress, confinement and female turmoil - within which the only available solace can be found inside four peeling, sickly yellow walls...
Erscheinungsdatum
Einführung Aimee McLaughlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 203 mm
Gewicht 157 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Horror
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-914090-34-9 / 1914090349
ISBN-13 978-1-914090-34-9 / 9781914090349
Zustand Neuware
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