高丽涛the yellow wallpaper.ppt

The Yellow Wallpaper Name: Gao Litao Instructor: Zhang Li About the author About the work Literature review Themes My ideas Conclusion About the Author A brief account of Gilman’s life In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson. After the birth of their daughter Katharine, she was beset by depression. Gilman began treatment with Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell in 1886. In January 1892, her best- known book The Yellow Wallpaper‘ first appeared in New England Magazine and was reprinted as a chapbook in 1899. In 1888 Gilman separated from Stetson (they divorced in 1894), and moved to California. Gilmans second husband was her cousin George Houghton Gilman, a New York lawyer. In 1894-95 she served as editor of The Impress, a literary weekly published by the Pacific Coast Womens Press Association. From 1909 to 1916 Gilman edited and wrote her own feminist paper, The Forerunner, in which most of her fiction appeared. In 1922 she moved with her husband from New York to Norwich, Connecticut. In 1932 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and died on August 17, 1935, in Pasadena, California. Selected works Women and Economics，1898. Concerning Children，1900. Human Work，1904. Man-Made World，1911. His Religion and Hers,1923. Moving the Mountain, 1911 Herland, 1915. With Her in Ourland, 1916. “Making a Change”, 1911. The Yellow Wallpaper” 1892. The Yellow Wallpaper is first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward womens physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical