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Wild unrest : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of \The yellow wall-paper\
Presents a biography on the late author that focuses on the real events that inspired the famous work, \"The Yellow Wall-Paper,\" along with the author's views on the work's true inspiration and meaning.
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Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of \the Yellow Wall-paper\
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. \"The Yellow Wall-Paper\" captured a woman's harrowing descent into madness and drew on the author's intimate knowledge of mental illness. Like the narrator of her story, Gilman was a victim of what was termed \"neurasthenia\" or \"hysteria\"--a \"bad case of the nerves.\" She had faced depressive episodes since adolescence, and with the arrival of marriage and motherhood, they deepened. In 1887 she suffered a severe breakdown and sought the \"rest cure\" of famed neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. Her marriage was a troubled one, and in the years that followed she separated from and ultimately divorced her husband. It was at this point, however, that Gilman embarked on what would become an influential career as an author, lecturer, and advocate for women's rights. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to illuminate the making of \"The Yellow Wall-Paper\": Gilman's journals and letters, which closely track her daily life and the reading that most influenced her; the voluminous diaries of her husband, Walter Stetson, which contain verbatim transcriptions of conversations with and letters from Charlotte; and the published work of S. Weir Mitchell, whose rest cure dominated the treatment of female \"hysteria\" in late 19th century America. Horowitz argues that these sources ultimately reveal that Gilman's great story emerged more from emotions rooted in the confinement and tensions of her unhappy marriage than from distress following Mitchell's rest cure. Wild Unrest adds immeasurably to our understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, uncovering both the literary and personal sources behind \"The Yellow Wall-Paper.\"
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Traces of J.B. Jackson : the man who taught us to see everyday America
\"Through a series of biographical essays, this book explores the life of writer, editor, artist, and teacher J. B. Jackson (1909-1996), a man who transformed how Americans understand the landscape, a word he defined as land shaped by human presence. Jackson focused on what he regarded as the essential American landscape, the everyday places of the countryside and city, exploring them as texts that reveal important truths about society and culture, present and past. In his words, landscape is \"History made visible.\" After a varied life that included travel, writing, sketching, ranch labor, and important service in army intelligence in World War II, Jackson moved to New Mexico and single-handedly created the magazine Landscape. As it grew in the years under his direction, 1951-68, Landscape attracted a wide range of contributors. Invitations to lecture and teach followed. For a decade, beginning in the late 1960s, Jackson pioneered the field of landscape studies at Berkeley, Harvard, and elsewhere, mentoring many who later became important architects, planners, and scholars. Jackson was a fascinating person to know. Through friendship as well as writings, he profoundly influenced the lives of many, including my own. Jackson's legacy continues through anthologized collections of his many remarkable works\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wild unrest : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of \The yellow wall-paper\
Wild Unrest focuses on famed feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) in the 1880s and sheds light on her story \"The Yellow Wall-Paper.\".
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In the Wake of Laurence Veysey: Re-examining the Liberal Arts College
In The Emergence of the American University, Laurence R. Veysey enriched our understanding of the American university at its creation in the second half of the nineteenth century. He demonstrated how this new institution drew on German approaches and valued experimental, empirical methods of knowledge. The university introduced the lecture and seminar. It valued graduate school training above all; the doctoral dissertation required that its students become creators of new knowledge, preferably by experimental methods. Veysey helped us understand the emerging American university by creating a useful ideal type.
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Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, and Conflict over Sex in the United States in the 1870s
Horowitz discusses the 1872 arrest of Victoria Woodhull for sending \"obscene\" literature through the mails. The charge stemmed from the issue of \"Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly\" distributed Oct 28 that detailed the alleged adulterous affair of pastor Henry Ward Beecher with Elizabeth Tilton, one of his congregants.
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J. B. Jackson as a Critic of Modern Architecture
Understanding what the American landscape meant to J. B. Jackson requires an exploration of his background, education, and antagonism to the International Style. No full critique of modernism appears in Jackson's mature published work. However, knowledge that the first issues of Landscape magazine in 1951 and 1952 were the work of a single author leads to discovery of Jackson's pseudonyms, especially H. G. West, P. G. Anson, G. A. Feather, and A. W. Conway. This article examines Jackson's pseudonymous writings and links them to his well-known essays on the landscape: \"The Westward-Moving House,\" \"Other-Directed Houses,\" and \"Southeast to Turkey.\"
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