The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)

by Chopin, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780393960570
• ISBN10: 0393960579
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
The Text of The Awakening	2	(111)
Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin's Notebook: "A Solitary Soul"	2	(1)
The Awakening	3	(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