173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Happy new year! Host Jacke Wilson is joined by special guest Evie Lee, a vice-president at the Literature Supporters Club, for a conversation about the classic short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) wrote nine novels and novellas, several plays, and over 180 short stories in her writing career. Her most famous work, "The Yellow Wallpaper," combines elements of a gothic supernatural horror story with an astute, ahead of its time psychological portrayal of a woman oppressed by her surroundings. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is today one of the most widely read and studied works in American literature. This is a self-contained episode of The History of Literature Podcast, in which the story is read aloud before being discussed. No need to read it beforehand (unless you want to!). Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, here we go a great show today. I am so excited.
0:34.7	Last time we touched base, it was before Christmas.
0:37.4	I hope you and your friends and loved ones had a happy holiday if you celebrate.
0:41.3	And if not, I assume you're
0:43.0	like the rest of us looking forward to 2019.
0:46.0	Let's hope it's a good year
0:48.0	full of happiness and peace on earth
0:51.0	and plenty of time to read.
0:53.0	We've got a great story for you today, the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman.
0:57.0	A classic story. A canonical work, a kind of feminist version of an Edgar Allan Poe story. It's an amazing short story, a really fun
1:06.7	one, but also ahead of its time in its feminist themes and keen psychological insight.
1:15.0	It's a total condemnation of a particular kind of 19th century medicine,
1:19.3	the rest cure, in which women were told to lie down and not work and not right and not get excited,
1:26.0	that their nervous disposition was troubling them and that they should sleep and
1:31.0	stop getting all caught up in their thoughts.
1:35.0	Kind of reminds me a little of our old friend Radavatsal in her excellent historical
1:40.0	mysteries said in the 19-teens and 20s when women would go to school and the
1:44.3	headmasters and other men in charge would say hey don't take too many
1:48.0	intellectual classes your womanly brains are overly excitable.
1:53.2	We don't want you to think too much.
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