Author:
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c1994.
Descriptionx, 324 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Note:Essays included: Unlikely awakening of a married woman / Percival Pollard. - Influences upon the novel / Daniel S. Rankin. - American Madame Bovary / Cyrille Arnavon. - Forgotten novel / Kenneth Eble. - Southern woman in fiction / Marie Fletcher. - From The American 1890s / Larzer Ziff. - Contrasting forces in thenovel / Goerge Arms. - Kate Chopin and the American realists / Per Seyersted. - 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: the problem of the one and the many / Suzanne Wolkenfeld. - 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. - 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-324).
