The Reading Habit and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’

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Abstract

During Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s engagement to Walter Stetson, a friend offered her a copy of Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grass.Gilman refused to accept the volume, saying that she would never read Whitman. Discussing this incident, Anne Lane attributes Gilman’s refusal of the book to the influence of Stetson, who apparently ‘accepted, at least for his fiancee, the conventional view of his day that defined Whitman’s poetry as unseemly and unsavory’ (Lane xi). Any anxiety Stetson may have had about the consequences of readingLeaves of Grasswould have rested upon another perfectly ‘conventional view’ of the day, the notion...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReading Women
Subtitle of host publicationLiterary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present
EditorsJanet Badia , Jennifer Phegley
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
Pages129-148
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781442679030
ISBN (Print)9780802094872
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2005

Publication series

NameStudies in Book and Print Culture

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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