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LIT 2000 - Freeman - Plant City: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Books about Gilman

Books and eBooks

Selected books and eBooks about Charlotte Perkins Gilman .  To access eBooks, you must be logged into the HCC Libraries Online System.   

Literature Databases

Library Databases

To find magazine, journal, and book articles about "The Yellow Wallpaper", search in the databases below.

Databases are used to search for and locate articles for the research process. Please see the Trouble Logging In? page in this Guide for instructions on how to sign-in to the library databases.  If you experience log-in issues, please contact an HCC Library.

Each of the databases has a different "look" but they all search in similar ways. Typically you will enter both the author's name and the title of the story to find articles that are about the particular story. If instead, you are only looking for biographical information about the author, you can use the Biography (Gale) database.

Bloom's Literature

Bloom's Literature is a database that provides access to several different types of resources on several authors, stories, and characters. 

  • Browse Most Studied Authors 
  • Browse Most Studied Works 
  • Browse Most Studied Characters 
To search for a specific author, story title or character, you can also use Search Options > Advanced Search tool.  
Bloom's Literature keyword search term line with The Yellow Wallpaper AND Gilman as keywords

Gale Literature

Allows you to search for magazine, journal and book articles about Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wallpaper".

At the Advanced Search screen type "The Yellow Wallpaper" in the Name of Work box and "Gilman" in the person-by or about box.

Make sure there is a check mark next to the More Options > "full text." This will ensure that the results are able to be read online immediately. Finally choose "Search" and a list of articles will appear.
Advanced Search page with "The Yellow Wallpaper" AND Gilman as the search terms.
Choose Literature Criticism to see Showing results for Literature Criticism (87)the articles available that critically examine the work. To read an article in the list of results, choose the title. 

Literary Reference Center Plus

Allows you to search for magazine, journal and book articles about Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her writings.  Some information will overlap with that in the Gale LIterature.

Enter the title "yellow wallpaper" and the author "gilman" in the search boxes, leave the drop-down menus set to "select a field".

Click on Full-Text, and then click on Search.

Advanced search page with Yellow Wallpaper, The AND Gilman, Charlotte Perkins as the search terms

 

Gale Literature Criticism

Allows you to search for essays and biographical information about Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her writings that appear in large collections of literary criticism.

 *This database contains the full copies of several sets of literary criticism series and is quite a bit different than the other databases.

To locate articles/chapters in this database, type The Yellow Wallpaper in the Keyword search box. Check "full text" under more options and click Search.
Advanced search page with The Yellow Wallpaper as the keyword search term.
Choose Literature Criticism to see Showing results for Literature Criticism (87)the articles available that critically examine the work. To read an article in the list of results, choose the title.