The awakening : an authoritative text, biographical and historical contexts, criticism / Kate Chopin ; edited by Margo Culley.

Author: Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904, author.

Edition Statement:Third edition.

ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Descriptionxiii, 365 pages ; 22 cm.

Note:The text of The Awakening -- Original cover -- Page from Chopin's notebook -- The Awakening -- Biogrpahical and historical contexts -- From Kate Chopin and her Creole stories / Daniel Rankin -- From Kate Chopin: a critical biography / Per Seyersted -- From Unveiling Kate Chopin / Emily Toth -- Contexts of The Awakening / Margo Culley -- 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 -- 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 -- Ladies' bathing suits / Harper's Bazar --Autumn dress / La mode illustree -- 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 (Gilman) -- [Conspicuous consumption and the servant-wife] / Thorstein Veblen -- Criticism -- Contemporary book reviews -- 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" -- Twentieth-century essays in criticism --[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 -- Selected essays in criticism since 2000 -- From Reading The awakening with Toni Morrison / Joyce Dyer -- From "The light which, showing the way, forbids it": reconstructing aesthetics in The awakening / Nicholas M. Gaskill -- From The awakening: the first 100 years / Bernard Koloski -- From Reading Kate Chopin in the twenty-first century / Heather Ostman -- From The awakening and new woman fiction / Ann Heilmann -- From Reckoning with race in The awakening / Anna Shannon Elfenbein -- [The awakening in film] / Kathleen L. Brown -- [The awakening adapted to the theater] / Chiori Miyagawa / From Humor in Chopin's The awakening / Robert C. Evans -- Kate Chopin: a chronology.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-365).

Note:Presents the complete text of "The Awakening" by nineteenth-century American novelist Kate Chopin and contains biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, as well as critical essays that analyzes her work.

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