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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception: A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19990101
Author:Anonymous

Charlotte Perkins Gihnan's "The Yellow WallPaper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception: A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook, edited by Julie Bates Dock.

Here is a full-dress critical edition of a seminal text in literary, women's, and genre studies. Dock examines the mythology that has grown up around the publication and reception of "The Yellow Wall-Paper," moving then to an analysis of the haphazard reprintings the story has undergone and the resulting textual deterioration that has affected the form in which most readers now meet Gilman's work. In addition, Dock ...

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