Providing all the tools for engaged, informed individual analysis of the text, this is an essential starting point for students of American literature and women's writing, or for anyone fascinated by Chopin's controversial work.
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Awakening is both modern and readable.
A Kate Chopin Miscellany (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget and Natchitoches: Northwestern State Univ. of Louisiana, 1979). With useful bibliography. Toth, Emily, Seyersted, Per, and Bonnell, Cheyenne (eds.), Kate Chopin's Private Papers ...
As a teacher of high-school literature, I find them to be excellent resources for the study of various novels, plays, etc."—Brooke Gifford, Vincent Middle High School This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The annotated text of Kate ...
And Athénaïse's husband, Cazeau, was equally impressive for me. He is, it's true, imperious, short tempered, too sure of himself, and contemptuous of Athénaïse's brother, but he has what Barbara Ewell calls “a blunt integrity.
The Awakening is one of the earliest novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. The novel was particularly controversial upon publication because Chopin didn't condemn Edna's desire for an affair.
" The novel "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English & Linguistics), language: English, abstract: In 21st-century ...
Today it belongs to the canon of important American Literature. The novel ‘The Awakening’ contains the story about a respectable woman of the late 1800s.
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and ...