{"id":171,"date":"2022-04-25T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:34:07","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If a physician of high standing, and one&#8217;s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression \u2013 a slight hysterical tendency \u2013 what is one to do?<\/p><cite>Gilman, &#8220;The Yellow Wall-Paper&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Our essays in this course covered a range of different topics and texts, including three novels (Kesey&#8217;s <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em>, Plath&#8217;s <em>The Bell Jar<\/em>, and Rhys&#8217; <em>Wide Sargasso Sea<\/em>) and a series of shorter pieces (Bly&#8217;s &#8220;Ten Days in a Mad-House,&#8221; Gilman&#8217;s &#8220;The Yellow Wallpaper,&#8221; Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Tell-Tale Heart,&#8221; Stevenson&#8217;s <em>Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em>, and Wright&#8217;s &#8220;The Man Who Lived Underground.&#8221;  Click on the links below to read some of our essays!<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/2022\/04\/25\/truth-madness-and-the-impossible-distinction-in-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest\/\">Truth, Madness, and the Impossible Distinction in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/2022\/04\/25\/were-all-mad-somewhere-an-exploration-into-the-environments-of-madness\/\">We\u2019re All Mad Somewhere: An Exploration Into The Environments of Madness<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/2022\/04\/25\/induction-of-madness\/\">Induction of Madness<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/2022\/04\/25\/intersections-with-madness-project-gendered-power-dynamics-in-the-yellow-wallpaper\/\">Intersections with Madness Project: Gendered Power Dynamics in The Yellow Wallpaper<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/2022\/04\/25\/catching-figs-the-bell-jar-and-second-wave-feminism\/\">Catching Figs: The Bell Jar and Second-Wave Feminism<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a physician of high standing, and one&#8217;s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression \u2013 a slight hysterical tendency \u2013 what is one to do? Gilman, &#8220;The Yellow Wall-Paper&#8221; Our essays in this course covered a range of different topics and texts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":58,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/imaginingmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}