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The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe is told from the perspective of an insane man who murders an old man and buries the dismembered body beneath the floor boards of the room in which he lives.

In her nonfiction work Women and Economics (1898), Gilman argues that men and women are more similar than different and that women should have all of the social and economic freedoms of men, including the right to work.

In The Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (1887), doctor S. Weir Mitchell explains his treatment of nervous prostration in women. He advocates a "rest-cure," or complete bed rest, believing that intellectual, literary, and artistic pursuits are destructive to women's mental health.

The short story "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1932) by American writer Conrad Aiken explores the hallucinations of a sensitive youngster named Paul Haslemann.