"The yellow wall-paper"; a dual-text critical edition.9780821416532 "The yellow wall-paper"; a dual-text critical edition. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860–1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher. Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the Forerunner, a liberal journal. . Ed. by Shawn St. Jean. Ohio University Press Ohio University Press is part of Ohio University. It publishes under its own name and the imprint Swallow Press. External links
2006 120 pages $42.95 Hardcover PS1744 Gilman's harrowing narrative has haunted readers since its original publication in 1892, but is this version, which appears in most anthologies and readers, the definitive text? Here St. Jean closely compares this version to the autograph autograph Any manuscript handwritten by its author; in common usage, a handwritten signature. Aside from its value as a collector's item, an early or corrected draft of a work may show its stages of composition or “correct” final version. version published by Radcliffe College Radcliffe College: see Harvard University. in 1994, finding more than 400 variants, and provides articles on the genealogy genealogy (jē'nēŏl`əjē, –ăl`–, jĕ–), the study of family lineage. Genealogies have existed since ancient times. of the substantive and accidental variants of early texts and editorial changes to the copy-texts. Contributors also provide essays on the illustrated text, the question of female "madness," the phenomenon of mental illness compared to the reliability of text, and the art and craft of deconstructing a text in parallel. St. Jean provides a fascinating parallel set of variants, some of which will doubtless cause critics to rethink their assumptions and interpretations. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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