As the "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in 1892, it was written before the beginning of "high modernism", but it is within a transition period between the Victorian and the modern. Its treatment of the struggles of a women to define her own place as a creator within a patriarchal society was typical of both late Victorian treatments of the "new woman" and such modernist figures as Virginia Wolf. On a technical...
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