The Awakening and Other Writings
by Kate Chopin
Critically acclaimed as Kate Chopin’s most influential work of fiction, The Awakening has assumed a place in the American literary canon. This new edition places the novel in the context of the cultural and regional influences that shape Chopin’s narrative.
With extensive contemporary readings that examine historical events, including the hurricanes that frequently disrupt life in Louisiana, this edition will contextualize The Awakening for a new generation of readers.
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Modern Literature, American literature, feminist literature, Louisiana Creoles, feminist fiction, manners and customs, literary fiction, Fiction, Adultery in fiction, Women in fiction, Adultery, Women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Married women, Married women in fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Man-woman relationships, Social conditions, The awakening (Chopin), Rezeption, Awakening (Chopin, Kate), Criticism and interpretation, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, New orleans (la.), fiction, Married people, fictionPeople
Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame Pontellier, Kate ChopinTimes
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kate Chopin: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Other Fiction
From At Fault (1890)
“At Chênière Caminada” (1893)
“Madame Célestin’s Divorce,” from Bayou Folk (1894)
“A Respectable Woman” (1894)
“An Egyptian Cigarette” (1897)
“The Storm: A Sequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’” (1898)
Poetry
“A Fancy” (1892)
“To Mrs B_
” (1896)
“To A Lady at the Piano” — “Mrs. R” (1896)
“A Document in Madness” (1898)
“The Haunted Chamber” (1899)
“A day with a splash of sunlight” (1899)
Journals and Essays
“Emancipation. A Life Fable” (1869-70)
“Solitude” (1895)
from “Is Love Divine? The Question Answered by Three Ladies Well Known in St. Louis Society” (1898)
“Reflection” (1899)
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
From Frances Porcher, The Mirror St. Louis
From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (13 May 1899)
From C.L. Deyo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (20 May 1899)
From G.B., St. Louis Post-Dispatch (21 May 1899)
From the Chicago Times-Herald (1 June 1899)
New Orleans Times-Democrat (18 June 1899)
Public Opinion New York
Literature (23 June 1899)
From the Boston Beacon (24 June 1899)
From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (25 June 1899)
Sibert [Willa Cather], Pittsburgh Leader (8 July 1899)
William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 August 1899)
The Nation (3 August 1899)
Boston Herald (12 August 1899)
Indianapolis Journal (14 August 1899)
The Congregationalist Boston
Appendix B: Background, Sources, and Contexts
From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841)
Algernon Swinburne, “A Cameo” (1866)
From Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
From Mary A. Livermore, Amelia E. Barr, and Rose Terry Cooke, “Women’s Views of Divorce,”
North American Review (1890)
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892)
From “Wife Who Retains Her Maiden Name and Won’t Obey,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (14 May 1895)
From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
From Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
From Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1914)
Appendix C: Etiquette and Social Customs
From The Elite Directory of St. Louis Society (1877)
From Blunders in Behavior Corrected (1880)
From James S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide (1885)
From Richard A. Wells, Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1891)
From Georgene Corry Benham, Polite Life and Etiquette, or What is Right and the Social Acts (1891)
Appendix D: Louisiana Contexts
From Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated: The Commercial, Social, Political and General History of New Orleans (1873)
From Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
From Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood (1912)
From Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana: Part 1,” Journal of Negro History (1916)
Appendix E: The Great Hurricane of 1893
From Rose C. Falls, Cheniere Caminada, or The Wind of Death: The Story of the Storm in Louisiana (1893)
From Mark Forrest, Wasted by Wind and Water: A Historical and Pictorial Sketch of the Gulf Disaster (1894)
From Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Story of Last Island (1889)
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