Synopses & Reviews
Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.
About the Author
Laurie Kirszner is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.Stephen Mandell is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION. The Yellow Wallpaper: A Story and a Life. 2. LITERATURE. About the Author. The Yellow Wallpaper. Discussion Questions. Research Questions. 3. SECONDARY SOURCES. Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. Elaine R. Hedges - Scudder's Comments on The Yellow Wallpaper. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar - from The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Ann J. Lane - Silas Weir Mitchell. Mary A. Hill - The Crown of Womanhood, 1884-1887. Paula A. Treichler - Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse inThe Yellow Wallpaper. Catherine Golden - "Overwriting" the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women. Denise D. Knight - from The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 4. SAMPLE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER. Erin Justino - Concepts of Confinement and Escape in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Fiction. Nonfiction. Verse. Bibliography. Biography. Criticism and Commentary. Electronic and Media Sources. Sound Recordings. World Wide Web Sites. 6. APPENDIX: DOCUMENTING SOURCES.