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The awakening: complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives

Author

Chopin, Kate

Publisher

Bedford/St. Martin's

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

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p.t 1. The awakening : the complete text in cultural context

Introduction : biographical and historical contexts

The complete text

Contextual documents

Advertisements from magazines

Fashion plates, Godey's Magazine

The dressing-table, Godey's Magazine

Home study for young ladies : visiting cards

From What women find to do all day, Ladies' Home Journal

Helen Watterson Moody, from What it means to be a wife, Ladies' Home Journal

Helen Watterson Moody, from The true meaning of motherhood, Ladies' Home Journal

The artist and marriage, The Atlantic Monthly

Ruth McEnery Stuart, from A people who live amid romance, Ladies' Home Journal

Walter Gregory, The evolution of woman in the South, Godey's Magazine

James Lane Allen, from Two principles in recent American Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly

Two Contemporary Reviews of The awakening.

pt. 2. The awakening : a case study in contemporary criticism

A critical history of The awakening

Feminist criticism and The awakening

What is feminist criticism?

Feminist criticism : a selected bibliography

A feminist perspective

Elaine Showalter, tradition and the female talent : The awakening as a solitary book

Gender criticism and The awakening

What is gender criticism?

Gender criticism : a selected bibliography

A gender perspective

Elizabeth LeBlanc, the metaphorical lesbian : Edna Pontellier in The awakening

The new historicism and The awakening

What is the new historicism?

The new historicism : a selected bibliography

A new historicist perspective

Margit Stange, personal property : exchange value and the female self in The awakening

Deconstruction and The awakening

What is deconstruction

Deconstruction : a selected bibliography

A deconstructionist perspective

Patricia S. Yaeger, "a language which nobody understood" : emancipatory strategies in The awakening

Reader-response criticism and The awakening

What is reader-response criticism?

Reader-response criticism : a selected bibliography

A reader-response perspective

Paula A. Treichler, the construction of ambiguity in The awakening : a linguistic analysis

Combining perspectives on The awakening

Cynthia Griffin Wolff, un-utterable longing : the discourse of feminine sexuality in Kate Chopin's The awakening

Glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

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Subjects

Adultery
Adultery -- Fiction
Awakening
Awakening (Chopin, Kate)
Chopin, Kate
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904. Awakening
Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. Awakening
Conditions sociales
Femmes
Femmes -- Louisiane -- La Nouvelle-Orléans -- Conditions sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Louisiana
Louisiana -- New Orleans
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
The awakening (Chopin)
Women
Women -- Louisiana -- Fiction

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Contributors

Walker, Nancy A.,1942

ISBN

9780333914397
9780312195755

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