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The awakening : an authoritative text, biographical and historical contexts, criticism
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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 analy...
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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- Creator
- Kate Chopin ; edited by Margo Culley
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- Language
- English
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- Third edition
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
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- xiii, 365 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393617313, 0393617319
- OCLC
- ocn992168147
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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