The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Did Melville exploit cetological literature in Moby-Dick (1851)? A case could be made against hundreds of novels and stories, but nobody cares enough to make too big of a stink. Legally, there’s nothing wrong with this sort of liberty-taking, if that’s what it is-Austen died over 100 years ago and the text of Pride and Prejudice has long been in the public domain-but there is considerable debate as to what constitutes a reimagining or a rip-off, let alone exploitation. In the 21st century, that usage crossed a threshold into unabashed exploitation with novels like Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a parody of the Jane Austen classic that deploys some 85 percent of its prose verbatim. Wells’s darkest scientific romance, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896).Īuthors have used the technique of riffing on (or altogether reworking) old storylines for centuries. In her latest novel, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (2022), she retells what may be H. She must have liked the idea of using another author’s work as a speculative template. Set in the Mexican countryside, this feminist horror novel depicts a woman’s oneiric, dread-inducing experience in a haunted mansion that siphons Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic gothic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Like Poe, Moreno-Garcia features an enigmatic lord of the manor, bad omens, hidden family secrets, and a murder mystery. These ten stories testify to the power of the imagination to create personal transformation and political change.THE TITLE of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020) denotes its story as well as its literary subgenre. 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.

Since its original printing in 1892, it has been routinely anthologized in collections of womens literature, American literature, and textbooks. Book Synopsis Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the key texts in American womens fiction and also a rallying cry for feminism. About the Book The Yellow Wallpaper with nine other equally momentous stories by a diverse group of renowned American women authors who changed the world with their compelling tales.

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman