Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Janet Beer is Professor of English, and Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Elizabeth Nolan is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Introduction 1: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents: Albert Rhodes, 'The Louisiana Creoles', The Galaxy (1873) Amelia E. Barr, 'The Modern Novel', The North American Review (1894) Amelia E. Barr, 'Good and Bad Mothers', The North American Review (1893) 'The New Heroines of Fiction', Harper's Bazaar (1898) 'French Novels for Public Libraries', Harper's Bazaar (1896) Arthur Martine, Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette (1866) 'A Social Problem', Harper's Bazaar (1896) 'What Girls are Doing', Harper's Bazaar (1897) 'Kissing', Godey's Lady's Book (1876) 'Smoking in the Street Cars', The Daily Picayune (1899) 'Bathing and Bathing Costumes' (article), The Delineator (1895) Robert Grant, 'The Art of Living: The Summer Problem', Scribner's Magazine (1895) Albert Rhodes, 'Suicide', The Galaxy (1876) Jessie]. Cassidy, 'The Legal Status of Women' (1897) Evelyn W. Ordway, 'How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote (1900) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) Extracts from Kate Chopin's Commonplace Book (1867-1870) 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Contemporary Reviews: C.L. Deyo, St Louis Post-Dispatch (1899) Providence Sunday Journal (1899) Chicago Times-Herald (1899) The Outlook (1899) St Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (1899) Willa Cather, Pittsburgh Leader (1899) Modern Criticism: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 'The Awakening in the Context of Experience, Culture and Values of Southern Women' (1988) Nancy Walker, 'The Historical and Cultural Setting' (1988) Emily Toth, Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of The Awakening, Chapter One (1990) Bert Bender, 'The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man' (1991) Michelle A. Birnbaum, 'Alien Hands: Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race' (1994) Cynthia Griffin Wolff, 'Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in The Awakening' (1996) Helen Taylor, 'Walking Through New Orleans: Kate Chopin and the Female Flaneur' (1997) Donald Pizer, 'A Note on Kate Chopin's The Awakening as Naturalistic Fiction' (2001) Elisabeth Le Blanc, 'The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening' (1996) Stephen Heath, 'Chopin's Parrot' (1994) Ivy Schweitzer, 'Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening' (1990) Janet Beer, 'Walking the Streets: Women out Alone in Kate Chopin's New Orleans' (2004) 3: Key Passages, Introduction, 4: Further Reading.

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