This extraordinary casebook by a leading Gilman scholar brings together 100 years of critical discussion on the feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, providing crucial historical background and rich interpretations of this complex and compelling work.

From the uneasy ambivalence of William Dean Howells to the feminist accolades of the 1970s and 1980s, and from semiotics to the history of women's health care, this edition brings together writings from a broad range of disciplines.