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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2 Book Cover
The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2, 10/e
George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo-Toledo


Key Concepts

The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" exhibits symptoms of severe depression, hysteria, and schizophrenia. The treatment of rest, isolation, and increased food consumption was a common prescription in the late nineteenth century for thousands of patients. Publication of "The Yellow Wallpaper" called attention to critical issues associated with the diagnosis of mental illness and therapies for its treatment, resulting in important modifications to both.

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