The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
- 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. A New Biographical Approach / Emily Toth -- An Etiquette/ Advice Book Sampler -- Duties Of The Wife -- Avoid All Cause For Complaint -- Beware Of Confidants -- Influence Of Mothers -- Reception Days -- Rules For Summer Resorts -- Flirtation And Increasing Fastness Of Manner -- Musicales -- The Street Manners Of A Lady -- Places Of Amusement -- Formal Dinner Parties -- Dress To Suit The Occasion -- Dress For Receiving Calls -- Carriage Dress -- The Full Dinner Dress -- Costumes For Country And Sea-side -- Bathing Dresses -- Fashion Plates From Harper's Bazar -- Creole Women / Mary L. Shaffter -- [southern Womanhood] / Wilbur Fisk Tillet -- Are Women Growing Selfish? / Dorothy Dix -- The American Wife -- Summer Flirtations -- A Strike For Liberty -- Women And Suicide -- From Women And Economics / Charlotte Perkins Stetson -- [conspicuous Consumption And The Servant-wife] / Thorstein Veblen -- Editor's Note : History Of The Criticism Of The Awakening -- From Book News (march 1899) -- From The Mirror (may 4, 1899) -- From The St. Louis Daily Globe-democrat (may 13, 1899) -- From The St. Louis Post-dispatch (may 20, 1899) -- From The Chicago Times-herald (june 1, 1899) -- From The Outlook (june 3, 1899) -- From The Providence Sunday Journal (june 4, 1899) -- From The New Orleans Times-democrat (june 18, 1899) -- From Public Opinion (june 22, 1899) -- From Literature (june 23, 1899) -- From The New York Times (june 24, 1899) -- From The Los Angeles Sunday Times (june 25, 1899) -- From The Pittsburgh Leader (july 8, 1899) -- From The Dial (august 1, 1899) -- From The Nation (august 3, 1899) -- From The Congregationalist (august 24, 1899) -- Letters From Lady Janet Scammon Young And Dr. Dunrobin Thomson -- Chopin's Retraction -- [the Unlikely Awakening Of A Married Woman] / Percival Pollard -- [influences Upon The Novel] / Daniel S. Rankin -- [an American Madame Bovary] / Cyrille Arnavon -- [a Forgotten Novel] / Kenneth Eble -- [the Southern Woman In Fiction] / Marie Fletcher -- From The American 1890s / Larzer Ziff -- [contrasting Forces In The Novel] / George Arms -- [kate Chopin And The American Realists] / Per Seyersted -- [the Ending Of The Novel] / George M. Spangler -- Local Color In The Awakening / John R. May -- [kate Chopin And Walt Whitman] / Lewis Leary -- [edna And The Woman Question] / Jules Chametzky -- [romantic Imagery] / Donald A. Ringe -- [narrative Stance] / Ruth Sullivan And Stewart Smith -- [thanatos And Eros] / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- Edna's Suicide / Suzanne Wolkenfeld -- The Problem Of The One And The Many -- Edna Pontellier : A Solitary Soul / Margo Culley -- [feminist Or Naturalist?] / Nancy Walker -- [progression And Regression In Edna Pontellier] / Elizabeth Fox-genovese -- [language And Ambiguity] / Paula A. Treichler -- [the Second Coming Of Aphrodite] / Sandra M. Gilbert -- [sexuality, Maternity, And Selfhood] / Lee R. Edwards -- [language And Female Emancipation] / Patricia S. Yaeger -- [american Racial And Sexual Mythology] Anna Shannon Elfenbein -- [gender, Race, And Region] / Helen Taylor -- [women Of Color In The Awakening] / Elizabeth Ammons -- [chopin And American Women Writers] / Elaine Showalter. Kate Chopin ; Edited By Margo Culley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 323-324).
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Author: Chopin, Kate.
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Pages: 336
- Publication Date: 1993-09-17T00:00:01Z
- Edition: 2nd
- Binding: Paperback
- MSRP: 0.00
- ISBN13: 9780393960570
- ISBN: 0393960579
- Language: en_US
- Quality Rating: 1
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