《黄墙纸》中“我”最终发疯的原因探究——对《黄墙纸》的新历史主义解读

《黄墙纸》被认为是美国著名女作家夏洛蒂·珀金斯·吉尔曼（1860—1935）的短篇杰作。从新历史主义批评角度的三个方面：《黄墙纸》作者吉尔曼的生活经历对小说创作的影响，小说写作时的社会背景，尤其是19世纪中产阶级妇女的处境以及《黄墙纸》和其它创作于19世纪的作品所反映出来的中产阶级妇女的社会地位及其所受到的来自社会和男性的双重压迫，探究了《黄墙纸》中女主人公“我”最终发疯的原因。

Neo-historical reading of The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Paper is considered as short masterpiece of American famous female writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.This paper probes into the cause of final madness of the heroine I of the novel from three aspects of neo-historical criticism,that is,the influence of the writer's life experience on the writing of the novel,the background of writing,especially the middle class women's status quo in the 19th century,and the their dual oppression coming from the society and male,which is reflected in the novel.