Production
Audio edited by Libby Gohn
Book Coordinator: Libby Gohn
Meta Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Proof Listener: David Stephenson
Artwork
Cover: Design inspired by the first edition of The Yellow Wallpaper
Inset: Cover of the first edition of The Yellow Wallpaper
Inset: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1895, from In This Our World
The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is a woman quite typical of her time and class in the late 1800’s. She shows symptoms of a “temporary nervous depression”, (what Freud might have called hysteria), and her husband,a physician, has prescribed a “rest cure”. They rent an old colonial mansion for the summer and move into the upstairs nursery, which is has been decorated with patterned yellow wallpaper that is strangely torn. The room’s numerous windows, which are barred, furnish the requisite fresh air. She is forbidden from working, and so spends many hours staring at the wallpaper, which becomes increasingly intriguing and begins to mutate. The story is told as a series of journal entries that chronicle her gradual descent into madness.Gilman wrote the story after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine, it is regarded as a seminal work of American feminist literature.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0682550991375 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991375 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | CD security sleeve, DVD case, CD jacket, MP3 download |
Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Recording | |
Read by | ashleighjane |
Length | 42 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Yellow Wallpaper
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Product Code: DB-6002
- Availability: In Stock
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