Maddi's Annotated Bibliography on The Yellow Wallpaper and New Historicism

Working Annotated Bibliography

Surprisingly, my research took me in a more feminist approach to the text. I had originally tried to avoid this discussion because it is so overdone with my text, however, my research seems to have given me a unique perspective of feminist disability that would juxtapose well with "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" that I had started in my previous essay. Diving into the ideas of hysteria being a feminine illness, as well as the idea of feminine disability in relation to that, will add a lot of depth to my paper! I do however want to continue to focus on the historical critique of mental illnesses, and how these two topics can relate to each other! I'll have to do similar research on Oscar Wilde and see what comparison I can draw up. 

1. [newspaper clipping found online in American Periodicals]                                                 Druggist, National. "Medical Progress.: The Detection of Arsenic in Wall-paper." Medical News (1882-1905) 59.6 (1891): 158. ProQuest. 18 Mar. 2020.                                                      This newspaper clipping comes from the same era as "The Yellow Wallpaper" was written, and discusses how wallpaper at the time could have contained arsenic. I find this particularly interesting, as the cause of the women's hysteria seems to rely on her surroundings and her inability to "work". I like the idea of it being the wallpaper that could have poisoned her mind-- taking a literal approach instead of a symbolic one.
2. [journal article found online through ProQuest]                                                                        Quawas, Rula.. "A New Woman's Journey into Insanity: Descent and Retrun in The Yellow Wallpaper." AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Langugae Association. 105 (2006): 35,53,147-148. ProQuestu. 20 Mar. 2020.                                                              This article gave a great insight to many different theoretical approaches to the text, but one that stood out to me was the idea of hysteria being portrayed as a feminine illness, and how it is a result of oppression and anger. I liked this idea, and I want to explore the idea of hysteria being a feminine illness and relate that back to Dorian Gray-- his beauty being feminine, and ultimately the source of his own madness.
3. [short film adaptation created by college students found on Youtube]                                            Louise Crossan. "The Yellow Wallpaper: Short Film." YouTube.com, 5 April 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PunrALJVc>                                                                     This isn't necessarily a scholarly source, but I wanted to put it here because it created a new perspective for me to read the short story in. In this adaptation, the story takes place in an asylum, and what we read from the unreliable narrator is completely fictitious-- being made up in her mind. I liked this perspective of how the world sees the narrator, as completely insane and beyond help, rather that ill and in need of help. It adds to the argument I want to make being that the novel teaches that the world is insane because of it's practices, rather than the wife being insane. 
4. [thesis found online through BYU's Scholar Archive]                                                                     Hood, Rebekah Michele, "Invisible Voices: Revising Feminist Approaches to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Including the Narrative of Mental Illness" (2017). All Theses and Dissertations. 6678. <https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6678.>                                This theses focuses on exactly what I had written in my previous drafts of my paper, and added extra insight to the idea of "feminist disability". This is an idea I had skirted around in my paper, but couldn't quite name. I like this view more than my originial claim, and I want to work in the idea of feminist disability into my paper a little bit more!
5. [jounal article found through a bibliography]                                                                                  Thrailkill, Jane F. "Doctoring "the Yellow Wallpaper"." ELH 69.2 (2002): 525-66. ProQuest. 20 Mar. 2020.                                                                                                                                       This journal article focuses a lot on the medical practices surrounding "The Yellow Wallpaper" and goes into specifics into the context of these practices. I hadn't before done enough research on the methods used or their implications, and I love how they are worked in to explaining the orinigal reception of the text in the 1890's, removed from the feminist criticism we receive it with today.