Status
Available
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Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (2nd Edition)
Pages
324
Description
Presents an annotated edition of the 1899 novel about a Victorian-era woman who finds passionate physical love with a young man she meets while on vacation; and includes biographical, historical, and cultural documents related to the novel's publication, and a selection of critical essays.
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Tables of Contents for The Awakening
Chapter/Section Title Page # Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition ix
The Text of The Awakening 2 111
Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin's Notebook: "A Solitary Soul" 2 1
The Awakening 3 110
Biographical and Historical Contexts 113 46
Editor's Note: Bibliography 113 6
Emily Toth A New Biographical Approach 113 6
Editor's Note: Contexts of The Awakening 119 40
An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler 122 9
Duties of the Wife 122 1
Avoid All Causes for Complaint 122 1
Beware of Confidants 122 1
Influence of Mothers 123 1
Reception Days 123 1
Rules for Summer Resorts 123 1
Flirtation and Increasing Fastness of Manner 124 1
Musicales 124 1
The Street Manners of a Lady 125 1
Places of Amusement 125 1
Formal Dinner Parties 125 1
Dress to Suit the Occasion 126 1
Dress for Receiving Calls 126 1
Carriage Dress 127 1
The Full Dinner Dress 127 1
Costumes for Country and Sea-side 127 1
Bathing Dresses 128 3
Fashion Plates from Harper's Bazar 131 6
Mary L. Shaffter Creole Women 137 2
Wilbur Fisk Tillett [Southern Womanhood] 139 5
Dorothy Dix Are Women Growing Selfish? 144 7
The American Wife 146 1
Summer Flirtations 147 1
A Strike for Liberty 148 2
Women and Suicide 150 1
Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) From Women and Economics 151 3
Thorstein Veblen [Conspicuous Consumption and the Servant-Wife] 154 5
Criticism 159 162
Editor's Note: History of the Criticism of The Awakening 159 2
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS 161 18
From Book News (March 1899) 161 1
From The Mirror (May 4, 1899) 162 1
From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (May 13, 1899) 163 1
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 20, 1899) 164 2
From the Chicago Times-Herald (June 1, 1899) 166 1
From The Outlook (June 3, 1899) 166 1
From the Providence Sunday Journal (June 4, 1899) 166 1
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat (June 18, 1899) 167 1
From Public Opinion (June 22, 1899) 168 1
From Literature (June 23, 1899) 168 1
From the New York Times (June 24, 1899) 169 1
From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 25, 1899) 169 1
From the Pittsburgh Leader (July 8, 1899) 170 2
From The Dial (August 1, 1899) 172 1
From The Nation (August 3, 1899) 172 1
From The Congregationalist (August 24, 1899) 173 1
Letters from "Lady Janet Scammon Young" and "Dr. Dunrobin Thomson" 173 5
Chopin's "Retraction" 178 1
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM 179 142
Percival Pollard [The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman] 179 2
Daniel S. Rankin [Influences Upon the Novel] 181 3
Cyrille Arnavon [An American Madame Bovary] 184 4
Kenneth Eble [A Forgotten Novel] 188 5
Marie Fletcher [The Southern Woman in Fiction] 193 3
Larzer Ziff From The American 1890s 196 2
George Arms [Contrasting Forces in the Novel] 198 4
Per Seyersted [Kate Chopin and the American Realists] 202 6
George M. Spangler [The Ending of the Novel] 208 3
John R. May Local Color in The Awakening 211 6
Lewis Leary [Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman] 217 4
Jules Chametzky [Edna and the "Woman Question"] 221 1
Donald A. Ringe [Romantic Imagery] 222 5
Ruth Sullivan Stewart Smith [Narrative Stance] 227 4
Cynthia Griffin Wolff [Thanatos and Eros] 231 10
Suzanne Wolkenfeld Edna's Suicide: The Problem of the One and the Many 241 6
Margo Culley Edna Pontellier: "A Solitary Soul" 247 5
Nancy Walker [Feminist or Naturalist?] 252 5
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese [Progression and Regression in Edna Pontellier] 257 6
Paula A. Treichler [Language and Ambiguity] 263 8
Sandra M. Gilbert [The Second Coming of Aphrodite] 271 11
Lee R. Edwards [Sexuality, Maternity, and Selfhood] 282 3
Patricia S. Yaeger [Language and Female Emancipation] 285 7
Anna Shannon Elfenbein [American Racial and Sexual Mythology] 292 7
Helen Taylor [Gender, Race, and Region] 299 10
Elizabeth Ammons [Women of Color in The Awakening] 309 2
Elaine Showalter [Chopin and American Women Writers] 311 10
Kate Chopin: A Chronology 321 2
Selected Bibliography 323
Chapter/Section Title Page # Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition ix
The Text of The Awakening 2 111
Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin's Notebook: "A Solitary Soul" 2 1
The Awakening 3 110
Biographical and Historical Contexts 113 46
Editor's Note: Bibliography 113 6
Emily Toth A New Biographical Approach 113 6
Editor's Note: Contexts of The Awakening 119 40
An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler 122 9
Duties of the Wife 122 1
Avoid All Causes for Complaint 122 1
Beware of Confidants 122 1
Influence of Mothers 123 1
Reception Days 123 1
Rules for Summer Resorts 123 1
Flirtation and Increasing Fastness of Manner 124 1
Musicales 124 1
The Street Manners of a Lady 125 1
Places of Amusement 125 1
Formal Dinner Parties 125 1
Dress to Suit the Occasion 126 1
Dress for Receiving Calls 126 1
Carriage Dress 127 1
The Full Dinner Dress 127 1
Costumes for Country and Sea-side 127 1
Bathing Dresses 128 3
Fashion Plates from Harper's Bazar 131 6
Mary L. Shaffter Creole Women 137 2
Wilbur Fisk Tillett [Southern Womanhood] 139 5
Dorothy Dix Are Women Growing Selfish? 144 7
The American Wife 146 1
Summer Flirtations 147 1
A Strike for Liberty 148 2
Women and Suicide 150 1
Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) From Women and Economics 151 3
Thorstein Veblen [Conspicuous Consumption and the Servant-Wife] 154 5
Criticism 159 162
Editor's Note: History of the Criticism of The Awakening 159 2
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS 161 18
From Book News (March 1899) 161 1
From The Mirror (May 4, 1899) 162 1
From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (May 13, 1899) 163 1
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 20, 1899) 164 2
From the Chicago Times-Herald (June 1, 1899) 166 1
From The Outlook (June 3, 1899) 166 1
From the Providence Sunday Journal (June 4, 1899) 166 1
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat (June 18, 1899) 167 1
From Public Opinion (June 22, 1899) 168 1
From Literature (June 23, 1899) 168 1
From the New York Times (June 24, 1899) 169 1
From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 25, 1899) 169 1
From the Pittsburgh Leader (July 8, 1899) 170 2
From The Dial (August 1, 1899) 172 1
From The Nation (August 3, 1899) 172 1
From The Congregationalist (August 24, 1899) 173 1
Letters from "Lady Janet Scammon Young" and "Dr. Dunrobin Thomson" 173 5
Chopin's "Retraction" 178 1
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM 179 142
Percival Pollard [The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman] 179 2
Daniel S. Rankin [Influences Upon the Novel] 181 3
Cyrille Arnavon [An American Madame Bovary] 184 4
Kenneth Eble [A Forgotten Novel] 188 5
Marie Fletcher [The Southern Woman in Fiction] 193 3
Larzer Ziff From The American 1890s 196 2
George Arms [Contrasting Forces in the Novel] 198 4
Per Seyersted [Kate Chopin and the American Realists] 202 6
George M. Spangler [The Ending of the Novel] 208 3
John R. May Local Color in The Awakening 211 6
Lewis Leary [Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman] 217 4
Jules Chametzky [Edna and the "Woman Question"] 221 1
Donald A. Ringe [Romantic Imagery] 222 5
Ruth Sullivan Stewart Smith [Narrative Stance] 227 4
Cynthia Griffin Wolff [Thanatos and Eros] 231 10
Suzanne Wolkenfeld Edna's Suicide: The Problem of the One and the Many 241 6
Margo Culley Edna Pontellier: "A Solitary Soul" 247 5
Nancy Walker [Feminist or Naturalist?] 252 5
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese [Progression and Regression in Edna Pontellier] 257 6
Paula A. Treichler [Language and Ambiguity] 263 8
Sandra M. Gilbert [The Second Coming of Aphrodite] 271 11
Lee R. Edwards [Sexuality, Maternity, and Selfhood] 282 3
Patricia S. Yaeger [Language and Female Emancipation] 285 7
Anna Shannon Elfenbein [American Racial and Sexual Mythology] 292 7
Helen Taylor [Gender, Race, and Region] 299 10
Elizabeth Ammons [Women of Color in The Awakening] 309 2
Elaine Showalter [Chopin and American Women Writers] 311 10
Kate Chopin: A Chronology 321 2
Selected Bibliography 323
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1899
Physical description
324 p.; 8.3 inches
ISBN
9780393960570
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Everyone told me to read this because of my interest in feminism. But when I did I was disappointed. Maybe the hype was better than the content.
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The person who recommended this book to me is a bit of literature snob; only reading classics and looking down her nose at anything written after the early 1900's. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to enjoy the book as much as I did. It had a light, lyrical prose; fantastic descriptions of Victorian
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