SOURCE: Haney-Peritz, Janice. “Monumental Feminism and Literature's Ancestral House: Another Look at ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’” In Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work, edited by Sheryl L. Meyering, pp. 95-107. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.

In the following essay originally published in 1986, Haney-Peritz asserts that the 1973 Feminist Press edition of “The Yellow Wallpaper” functioned to disrupt and displace the line of male critical response to the story.

In 1973, the Feminist Press brought forth a single volume edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story which had originally appeared in the May 1892 issue of New England Magazine. Since William Dean Howells included Gilman's story in his 1920 collection of Great Modern American Short Stories, it cannot be said that between 1892 and 1973 “The Yellow Wallpaper” was completely ignored. What can be said, however, is that until 1973, the story's feminist thrust had gone unremarked; even Howells, who was...