@inbook{dd34bf15257f4ac387b038e3ccc1e998,
title = "The Reading Habit and {\textquoteleft}The Yellow Wallpaper{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "During Charlotte Perkins Gilman{\textquoteright}s engagement to Walter Stetson, a friend offered her a copy of Walt Whitman{\textquoteright}sLeaves of Grass.Gilman refused to accept the volume, saying that she would never read Whitman. Discussing this incident, Anne Lane attributes Gilman{\textquoteright}s refusal of the book to the influence of Stetson, who apparently {\textquoteleft}accepted, at least for his fiancee, the conventional view of his day that defined Whitman{\textquoteright}s poetry as unseemly and unsavory{\textquoteright} (Lane xi). Any anxiety Stetson may have had about the consequences of readingLeaves of Grasswould have rested upon another perfectly {\textquoteleft}conventional view{\textquoteright} of the day, the notion...",
author = "Barbara Hochman",
year = "2005",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780802094872",
series = "Studies in Book and Print Culture",
publisher = "University of Toronto Press",
pages = "129--148",
editor = "\{Badia \}, Janet and Phegley, \{Jennifer \}",
booktitle = "Reading Women",
address = "Canada",
}