Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is one of the key texts in American women’s fiction and also a rallying cry for feminism. Since its original printing in 1892, it has been routinely anthologized in collections of women’s literature, American literature, and textbooks. This volume gathers nine other equally momentous stories by a diverse group of renowned American women authors who changed the world with their compelling tales. These ten stories testify to the power of the imagination to create personal transformation and political change.
Authors whose stories appear in this unique collection are:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Djuna Barnes
Kate Chopin
Sui Sin Far
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Stoddard
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Edith Wharton
Inhoudsopgave
Contents
Introduction by Ulrich Baer
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
‘Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper’
The Two Offers Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Prescription Elizabeth Stoddard
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
The Reckoning Edith Wharton
Mrs. Spring Fragrance Sui Sin Far
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene Gertrude Stein
What Do You See, Madam? Djuna Barnes
Sweat Zora Neale Hurston
Sanctuary Nella Larsen
Author Biographies
Over de auteur
Ulrich Baer earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has written numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics, and edited and translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists on the ‘Think About It’ podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love.
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