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The awakening
complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
by Kate Chopin
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This edition was published in 1993 by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press in Boston.
Written in English
— 343 pages
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating mixed reaction from contemporary readers and criticism. 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 Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams
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Fiction, Adultery in fiction, Women in fiction, Adultery, Women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Married women, Married women in fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Criticism and interpretation, Louisiana, Classic Literature, Literary Anthologies, Short Stories, Man-woman relationships, Social conditions, FICTION, Psychological, Interpersonal relationsPreviews available in: English
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The Awakening [EasyRead Edition]
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The Awakening: Literary Touchstone
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The Awakening
September 13, 2000, Adamant Media Corporation
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The Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
December 1992, Bedford/St Martins
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The Awakening
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The Awakening
First published in 1981
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Fiction, Adultery in fiction, Women in fiction, Adultery, Women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Married women, Married women in fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Criticism and interpretation, Louisiana, Classic Literature, Literary Anthologies, Short Stories, Man-woman relationships, Social conditions, FICTION, Psychological, Interpersonal relationsPlaces
New Orleans (La.), Louisiana, New OrleansWork Description
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating mixed reaction from contemporary readers and criticism. 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 Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams
The awakening
complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
This edition was published in 1993 by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press in Boston.
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