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In a letter, ED said, "When I state myself, as the representative in the verse [that is, when the
word "I" appears], it does not mean me, but a supposed person."
Essay title:
Emily Dickinson's poetry seems <strong>to</strong> work by negatives. What have you found in the poetry <strong>to</strong>
challenge you?
You may find it helpful <strong>to</strong> compare ED with Charlotte Perkins Gilman, <strong>and</strong> with the
Bibliography on her.
<strong>The</strong> Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Some <strong>read</strong>ing suggestions for those interested in working further, or in writing, on this text.:
Ellen Moers, Literary Women 1977
Shari Bens<strong>to</strong>ck (ed.) Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship
Michelle A Massé In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism <strong>and</strong> the Gothic 1992
Diana Price Herndl, Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction <strong>and</strong>
Culture , 1840-1900 , 1993
Annette Kolodny, "A Map for Mis<strong>read</strong>ing," New Literary His<strong>to</strong>ry 11, 1980,
451-67.
Susan S. Lanser, "Feminist Criticism, "<strong>The</strong> Yellow Wallpaper" <strong>and</strong> the Politics of Color in
America" Feminist Studies 15.3. 1989, 415-41.
Novels behind <strong>The</strong> Yellow Wallpaper:
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847) <strong>and</strong> Villette (1853); Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1816)
Kate Chopin, <strong>The</strong> Awakening (1895) develops closely from Gilman's novella.
On the Gothic theme in nineteenth-century fiction:
S<strong>and</strong>ra Gilbert <strong>and</strong> Susan Gubar: <strong>The</strong> Madwoman in the Attic 1979
Juliann Fleenor, (ed.) <strong>The</strong> Female Gothic 1983
On ecriture feminine, see Ann Rosl<strong>and</strong> Jones, "Writing the Body: Towards an underst<strong>and</strong>ing
of l'ecriture feminine," in Elaine Showalter (ed.) <strong>The</strong> New Feminist Criticism, 1986 (an
ultimately hostile view of Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray <strong>and</strong> Julia Kristeva, whose writings
may be found, initially, in <strong>The</strong> New French Feminisms ed. Elaine Marks <strong>and</strong> Isablle de
Courtivron, (1986).
On feminist criticism, see:
Toril Moi, Sexual / Textual Politics 1985
Pam Morris, Literature <strong>and</strong> Feminism 1994
Gayle Greene <strong>and</strong> Coppelia Kahn, Making A Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism 1985
You should also look up Gilman on the subject catalogue on the library computer, <strong>and</strong> for
more detailed work, look at the entry on mental illness <strong>and</strong> literature. For psychoanalysis, the