The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)

ISBN 13:
9780393960570
ISBN 10:
0393960579
Edition: 2nd
Format: Textbook Paperback
Copyright: 09/17/1993
Publisher: W W NORTON

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Summary

This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.

Preface to the Second Edition

The Text of The Awakening

(111)

Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin's Notebook: "A Solitary Soul"

(1)

The Awakening

(110)

Biographical and Historical Contexts

113

(46)

Editor's Note: Bibliography

113

(6)

Emily Toth

A New Biographical Approach

113

(6)

Editor's Note: Contexts of The Awakening

119

(40)

An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler

122

(9)

Duties of the Wife

122

(1)

Avoid All Causes for Complaint

122

(1)

Beware of Confidants

122

(1)

Influence of Mothers

123

(1)

Reception Days

123

(1)

Rules for Summer Resorts

123

(1)

Flirtation and Increasing Fastness of Manner

124

(1)

Musicales

124

(1)

The Street Manners of a Lady

125

(1)

Places of Amusement

125

(1)

Formal Dinner Parties

125

(1)

Dress to Suit the Occasion

126

(1)

Dress for Receiving Calls

126

(1)

Carriage Dress

127

(1)

The Full Dinner Dress

127

(1)

Costumes for Country and Sea-side

127

(1)

Bathing Dresses

128

(3)

Fashion Plates from Harper's Bazar

131

(6)

Mary L. Shaffter

Creole Women

137

(2)

Wilbur Fisk Tillett

[Southern Womanhood]

139

(5)

Dorothy Dix

Are Women Growing Selfish?

144

(7)

The American Wife

146

(1)

Summer Flirtations

147

(1)

A Strike for Liberty

148

(2)

Women and Suicide

150

(1)

Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman)

From Women and Economics

151

(3)

Thorstein Veblen

[Conspicuous Consumption and the Servant-Wife]

154

(5)

Criticism

159

(162)

Editor's Note: History of the Criticism of The Awakening

159

(2)

CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS

161

(18)

From Book News (March 1899)

161

(1)

From The Mirror (May 4, 1899)

162

(1)

From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (May 13, 1899)

163

(1)

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 20, 1899)

164

(2)

From the Chicago Times-Herald (June 1, 1899)

166

(1)

From The Outlook (June 3, 1899)

166

(1)

From the Providence Sunday Journal (June 4, 1899)

166

(1)

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat (June 18, 1899)

167

(1)

From Public Opinion (June 22, 1899)

168

(1)

From Literature (June 23, 1899)

168

(1)

From the New York Times (June 24, 1899)

169

(1)

From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 25, 1899)

169

(1)

From the Pittsburgh Leader (July 8, 1899)

170

(2)

From The Dial (August 1, 1899)

172

(1)

From The Nation (August 3, 1899)

172

(1)

From The Congregationalist (August 24, 1899)

173

(1)

Letters from "Lady Janet Scammon Young" and "Dr. Dunrobin Thomson"

173

(5)

Chopin's "Retraction"

178

(1)

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM

179

(142)

Percival Pollard

[The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman]

179

(2)

Daniel S. Rankin

[Influences Upon the Novel]

181

(3)

Cyrille Arnavon

[An American Madame Bovary]

184

(4)

Kenneth Eble

[A Forgotten Novel]

188

(5)

Marie Fletcher

[The Southern Woman in Fiction]

193

(3)

Larzer Ziff

From The American 1890s

196

(2)

George Arms

[Contrasting Forces in the Novel]

198

(4)

Per Seyersted

[Kate Chopin and the American Realists]

202

(6)

George M. Spangler

[The Ending of the Novel]

208

(3)

John R. May

Local Color in The Awakening

211

(6)

Lewis Leary

[Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman]

217

(4)

Jules Chametzky

[Edna and the "Woman Question"]

221

(1)

Donald A. Ringe

[Romantic Imagery]

222

(5)

Ruth Sullivan

Stewart Smith

[Narrative Stance]

227

(4)

Cynthia Griffin Wolff

[Thanatos and Eros]

231

(10)

Suzanne Wolkenfeld

Edna's Suicide: The Problem of the One and the Many

241

(6)

Margo Culley

Edna Pontellier: "A Solitary Soul"

247

(5)

Nancy Walker

[Feminist or Naturalist?]

252

(5)

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

[Progression and Regression in Edna Pontellier]

257

(6)

Paula A. Treichler

[Language and Ambiguity]

263

(8)

Sandra M. Gilbert

[The Second Coming of Aphrodite]

271

(11)

Lee R. Edwards

[Sexuality, Maternity, and Selfhood]

282

(3)

Patricia S. Yaeger

[Language and Female Emancipation]

285

(7)

Anna Shannon Elfenbein

[American Racial and Sexual Mythology]

292

(7)

Helen Taylor

[Gender, Race, and Region]

299

(10)

Elizabeth Ammons

[Women of Color in The Awakening]

309

(2)

Elaine Showalter

[Chopin and American Women Writers]

311

(10)

Kate Chopin: A Chronology

321

(2)

Selected Bibliography

323

The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)

9780393960570

0393960579

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