This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "

Reference Books

• MasterPlots Short Story Series, (Ref PN 3326 .M27 2004) Volume(s):
  • 8: 4722-24
• Short Story Criticism, (Ref PN 3373 .S389) Volume(s):
  • 13: 118-119, 121-125, 128-141, 147-162, 166, 168, 179-171, 174
  • 62: 122-229 All essays are about "The Yellow Wall-paper." Essays reproduced in Literature Criticism Online.
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• Short Stories for Students (Ref PN 3373 .S56) Volume(s):
  • 1: 277 - 292
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Ref PN 771 .T86) Volume(s):
  • 9: 101-103, 105-107, 110, 112, 115
  • 37: 176-177, 188-195, 198-201, 205-207, 209-211, 213
  • 117: 42-43, 45-47, 56-57, 59, 76-77, 88-96, 99, 106, 108-110, 115, 120, 122, 124-126, 139, 151, 153, 163

Biographical Information (Reference Collection)

• American Writers, Supplement XI (Ref PS 129 .A55)
• Modern American Women Writers (Ref PS 151 .M54 1991)

General Collection (may be checked out)

• Carpenter, Lynette and Wndy K. Kolmar, eds. Haunting the House Fiction. (PS 374 .G45 H38 1991)
• Dock, Julie Bates, ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception. (PS 1744 .G57 Y45 1998)
• Golden, Catherine, ed. The Captive Imagination. (PS 1744 .G57 Y453 1992)
• Golden, Catherine, ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper." (PS 1744 .G57 Y45 2004)
• Knight, Denise D. and Cynthia J. Davis, eds. Approaches to Teacing Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" and Herland. (PS 1744 .G57 Y43 2003)
• Meyer, Sheryl L., ed. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (PS 1744 .G57 Z63)
• St. Jean, Shawn. "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a Dual-Text Critical Edition. (PS 1744 .G57 Y45)

E-Books

• None

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online Reproduction of essays in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 62.
• Literature Online

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Duneer, Anita. "On the Verge of a Breakthrough: Projections of Escape from the Attic and the Thwarted Tower in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper" and Susan Glaspell's "The Verge." Journal of American Drama and Theatre 18.1 (2006): 34-53. [Literature Online]
• Hume, Beverly A. "Managing Madness in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper." Studies in American Fiction: 30.1 (2002): 3+. [General OneFile/Academic Onefile]
• Johnson, Greg. "Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage and Redemption in 'The Yellow Wall-paper." Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (1989): 521-530. [Literature Resource Center]
• Quawas, Rula. "A new Woman's Journey into Insanity: Descent and Return in 'The yellow Wall-paper." AUMLA 105 (2006): 35-53. [Literature Online]
• St. Jean, Shawn. "hanging 'The Yellow Wall-paper': Feminism and Textual Studies."Feminist Studies 28.2 (2002): 396-415. [Literature Online]
• Shumaker, Conrad. "Too Terribly Good To Be Printed: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper." American Literature 57.4 (1985): 588-599. [JSTOR]