Putting the rest cure to rest: An interpretive essay on "The Yellow Wallpaper"
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Yellow Wallpaper: Based on Gilman's personal experience
- The real Weir Mitchell Rest Cure
- Gilman's representation of the rest cure
- Conclusion
Abstract
Since its publication in 1892, the yellow wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has generated a variety of interpretations. Originally viewed to be a ghost story, it has been regarded as Gothic literature, science fiction, a statement on postpartum depression, having Victorian patriarchal attitudes and a journey into the depths of mental illness. More controversial, but curiously overlooked is the topic of the 'rest cure' and whether Gilman's associations are fact or fiction. Evidence supports Charlotte Gilman may have misrepresented the Weir Mitchell rest cure, and pokes more holes in the yellow wallpaper."
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