LibGuides: ENGL1302--Storytelling: The Dark Side: Suggested Resources

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This box contains library resources - literary criticism, author biographies, and documentaries - about Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her work.

Books

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America by Jill Annette Bergman (Editor)
Call Number: PS1744.G57 C437 2017 EBK

ISBN: 9780817390709

Publication Date: 2017-02-07
Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Jill Rudd (Editor); Val Gough (Editor)
Call Number: PS1744.G57 Z62 1999 EBK

ISBN: 9781587293108

Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Cynthia Davis
Call Number: PS1744 .G57 Z66 2010

ISBN: 9780804774192

Publication Date: 2010
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a study of the short fiction by Denise D. Knight
Call Number: PS1744.G57 Z734 1997

ISBN: 9780805708660

Publication Date: 1997-04-01

Print book at the Eastview Campus and Riverside Campus.

Articles from Library Databases

Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Journal article accessed from Literary Reference Center.
"Too Terribly Good to Be Printed": Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Journal article accessed from JSTOR.
Environment as Psychopathological Symbolism in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Journal article accessed from JSTOR.

Films & Documentaries

Charlotte Perkins Gilman yellow wallpaper
Video from Films on Demand.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia
Video from Kanopy. Kanopy requires you create an account in their site before you can view content.

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

Short film from 1969. English with Spanish subtitles.

How Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Influenced Movies From Psycho to Get Out
collider.com article from 2022
The Ever-Pertinent Theme of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
The Opiate article from 2020

The VVitch dir. Robert Eggers

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Documentary about Folk Horror on Kanopy. Kanopy (and not ACC) requires that you create a free account before accessing.
"HERE BE WITCHES"
The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast, Season 1, Episode 7 discussing The VVitch.
Witch Tropes
Witch folklore: myths, legends and superstition in Europe, USA and beyond
Types of Witches
Types of witchcraft (and their folkloric roots)
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide
Ebook from the library databases. Explore the chapter on Origins of Puritan Belief in Witchcraft!
Definition of Witching Hour
Definition of Witch
Biography of Robert Eggers

Anatomy of a Scene from The VVitch with Robert Eggers

eBook Highlight

Short Stories for Students
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.

Library Databases

The following databases can be searched to find articles about your story or its author. You can access a full list of the library's databases from our A-Z List of Databases page.

Gale eBooks
Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.

Gale Literature Criticism
Includes both Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism -- extensive compilation of literary commentary -- and Gale's Short Story Criticism -- thousands of essays on the critical response to short story writers

Short Story Index
Provides detailed indexing for hundreds of thousands of short stories.

Bloom's Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Contains up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Academic Search Complete
Scholarly articles, news, and research on topics in most subject areas.
JSTOR

Contains more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources.