Haunting or Hallucination? Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Contemporary Theories of Decorative Art and Psychiatry
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0061" target="_blank" >10.3366/gothic.2020.0061</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Haunting or Hallucination? Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Contemporary Theories of Decorative Art and Psychiatry
Original language description
Even though Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892) has received a lot of critical attention, there have been only a few attempts at the visual analysis of the wallpaper. This article approaches it as a case of the intricate pattern - an optically unpleasant and complicated ornament that can be depicted. This motif is present in gothic narratives (Poe's 'Ligeia', 1838), films (RobertWise's The Haunting, 1963) as well as outside the genre. With a connection to wallpapers, it was discussed publicly during Gilman's time. This article reconstructs this discussion with examples from the contemporary interior decoration manuals, guidebooks for nursing and medical literature. The aim is to contextualize Gilman's story and to analyse the ways in which her descriptions of the wallpaper are similar to the rhetoric of the guidebooks. This context can enrich our knowledge about the period, reception of the story and possibly even about Gilman's sources of inspiration.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Gothic Studies
ISSN
1362-7937
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
266-284
UT code for WoS article
000591902100003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85096749787