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Critical Bibliography - English Literature
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A critical bibliography that achieved a grade first this year at university level. Outlines how to conduct and structure a critical bibliography.

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  • January 13, 2025
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Sick Imagination: Disability, Illness and the Critical Medical Humanities

Critical Bibliography: A Review of Literature on Dismissed Female Pain



In this bibliography, I aim to identify the ways in which a range of literature examines the

multifaceted experiences of women’s pain being dismissed and disbelieved. The works I have

chosen include fictional and non-fictional representations of dismissed female pain within the

healthcare system and wider society, tackling issues of female identity, trauma, and resilience

in the face of misunderstood mental and physical illnesses.



Works of Fiction

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. New England Magazine, 1892.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Victorian novella follows an unnamed narrator suffering from

post-partum depression. She is instructed by her physician-husband to isolate herself and

refrain from any physical or intellectual activity, a treatment known as the ‘rest cure’.

Gilman’s employment of unsettling and obsessive language, such as the description of the

wallpaper pattern moving because “the woman behind it shakes it,” creates an image of

imprisonment that reflects the narrator’s own confined pain (Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892).

The physician-husband, John, acts as a mouthpiece for the medical industry and society in

this period, with his dismissive attitude towards his wife suggesting anything but care.

Gilman’s narrator feels “very much like a child” because of the way John treats her, which

implies how women in pain are often infantilized and not taken seriously (Gilman 1892).

Gilman depicts how the pressure to conceal pain becomes too much to bear, the narrator’s

worsening illness showing how the 19th century rest cure was not only ineffective but


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