Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...
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This is a story about women rights during 19th century. When I first read this book, I feel bored, because I didn't understand what she's trying to say. After I read it over again. I start to get the central meaning of the book. I think this is a great book...
評分比a room of one's own 好一點 因為沒有那麼長 其實是好很多 沒有那麼多生晦難懂的詞 結局還挺confused 最後還是教授解釋清楚的 也就是女權的那些破事吧 其實不是西方文學曆史MAJOR的大可不必精讀這種 那英國古代的語法 是很惡心的...瞭解一下是不錯的 但是我個人覺得讀瞭那麼...
評分 評分比a room of one's own 好一點 因為沒有那麼長 其實是好很多 沒有那麼多生晦難懂的詞 結局還挺confused 最後還是教授解釋清楚的 也就是女權的那些破事吧 其實不是西方文學曆史MAJOR的大可不必精讀這種 那英國古代的語法 是很惡心的...瞭解一下是不錯的 但是我個人覺得讀瞭那麼...
評分This is a story about women rights during 19th century. When I first read this book, I feel bored, because I didn't understand what she's trying to say. After I read it over again. I start to get the central meaning of the book. I think this is a great book...
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The Yellow Wallpaper (Virago modern classics) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載