Department
English
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 1989
Abstract
Discusses the 19th-century short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Comparison with the insistence of the poet Emily Dickinson's mother to install new wallpaper in her bedroom before Emily was born; Suggestion of Gothic themes of confinement and rebellion, forbidden desire and irrational fear; View of the behavior of the story's female narrator.
Journal Title
Studies in Short Fiction
Journal ISSN
0039-3789
Volume
26
Issue
4
First Page
521
Last Page
530
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