The awakening / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904. Awakening.

Chopin, Kate.

Feminism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Summary:

She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before. Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" insures its timeliness today. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Contents:

On The awakening / Bernard Koloski

Biography of Kate Chopin / Courtney Rottgering

"Oh! To be able to paint in color rather than in words!" : Kate Chopin's The awakening and Impressionism / Julieann Veronica Ulin

Reactions to the chief characters in Kate Chopin's The awakening : positive, negative, and miscellaneous / Stephen Paul Bray and Sarah Fredericks

Surprises, complications, unexpected shifts, and ironic juxtapositions in Kate Chopin's The awakening ; Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Huckleberry Finn, and The awakening ; Was The awakening banned or burned? What did Chopin think worth reading? (And other new archival evidence about Kate Chopin's life and writings) / Robert C. Evans

A letter to students as they read Kate Chopin's The awakening / Jocye Dyer

Defending The awakening : a response to Hugh J. Dawson ; In defense of Robert Lebrun in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Robert C. Evans

Tourism and landscape in The awakening / Jeffrey Melton

Kate Chopin's The awakening and her Louisiana fiction as travel literature / Thomas Bonner, Jr.

Catching up with Kate Chopin : reading Chopin reading / Mary E. Papke

In praise of folly : gendered discourse in The awakening / Robert D. Arner

Humor in Chopin's The awakening / Robert C. Evans

'Casting aside that fictitious self' : The awakening as a cautionary tale / Peter J. Ramos

'The subtle quivering life' : reading The awakening through Kate Chopin / David Z. Wehner

Kate Chopin's The awakening, authenticity and the artist / Janet Beer and Helena Goodwyn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed April 20, 2023).

ISBN:

9781619252295

1619252295

OCLC:

899588471