The Awakening

Informationen zum Autor Kate Chopin, Edited by Nancy A. Walker Klappentext This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to The Awakening from the perspectives of feminism, new historicism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and cultural studies. An additional new essay demonstrates how various approaches can be combined together. The text and essays are complemented by introductions to The Awakening and to the criticism, a glossary of critical terms, and (for the first time) contextual documents. Zusammenfassung This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to The Awakening from the perspectives of feminism, new historicism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series About this Volume PART I. THE AWAKENING : THE COMPLETE TEXT Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts The Complete Text [The 1969 Seyersted Edition] New Cultural Documents New Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening : From "Recent Novels" ( The Nation 69, 3 August 1899, 96) From "Books of the Week" ( Providence Sunday Journal , 4 June 1899, 15) New Two Principles in Recent American Fiction, James Lane Allen ( The Altantic Monthly , October 1897) New Home Study for Young Ladies: Visiting Cards (from Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of Entertaining Knowledge , 1887) New The Dressing-Table New Advertisements from Women's Magazines Lablanche Face Powder ( Ladies Home Journal , August 1899) Braided Wire Bristles and Forms ( Ladies Home Journal , May 1899) Ferris's Good Sense Corset Waists: When Beauty Reigns ( Harper's Magazine , January 1899) The Whitely Exerciser ( Ladies Home Journal , December 1896) New Fashion Plates from Women's Magazines Plate No. 7 ( Godey's Magazine , January 1897) Plate No. 6 ( Godey's Magazine , March 1897) Plate No. 7 ( Godey's Magazine , August 1897) New A People Who Live Amid Romance, Ruth McEnery Stuart, ( Ladies Home Journal , December 1896) New The Artist and Marriage ( The Atlantic Monthly , January 1899) New What It Means to Be a Wife, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , March 1899) New The True Meaning of Motherhood, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , May 1899) New What Women Find to Do all Day ( Ladies Home Journal , April 1899) New The Evolution of Woman in the South, Walter Gregory, ( Godey's Magazine , October 1897) PART II. THE AWAKENING : A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM A Critical History of The Awakening Feminist Criticism and The Awakening What Is Feminist Criticism? Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Feminist Perspective: Elaine Showalter, Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book Gender Criticism and The Awakening What Is Gender Criticism? Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Gender Perspective: New Elizabeth LeBlanc, The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening New Historicism and The Awakening What Is New Historicism? New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography A New Historicist Perspective: Margit Stange, Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening Deconstruction and The Awakening What Is Deconstruction?

List of contents

  About the Series
  About this Volume
    
PART I. THE AWAKENING: THE COMPLETE TEXT
    
  Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
    
  The Complete Text [The 1969 Seyersted Edition]
    
  New Cultural Documents
    New Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening:
       From "Recent Novels" (The Nation 69, 3 August 1899, 96)
       From "Books of the Week" (Providence Sunday Journal, 4 June 1899, 15)
    New Two Principles in Recent American Fiction, James Lane Allen (The Altantic Monthly, October 1897)
    New Home Study for Young Ladies: Visiting Cards (from Colliers Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of Entertaining Knowledge, 1887)
    New The Dressing-Table
    New Advertisements from Womens Magazines
       Lablanche Face Powder (Ladies Home Journal, August 1899)
       Braided Wire Bristles and Forms (Ladies Home Journal, May 1899)
       Ferriss Good Sense Corset Waists: When Beauty Reigns (Harpers Magazine, January 1899)
       The Whitely Exerciser (Ladies Home Journal, December 1896)
    New Fashion Plates from Womens Magazines
       Plate No. 7 (Godeys Magazine, January 1897)
       Plate No. 6 (Godeys Magazine, March 1897)
       Plate No. 7 (Godeys Magazine, August 1897)
    New A People Who Live Amid Romance, Ruth McEnery Stuart, (Ladies Home Journal, December 1896)
    New The Artist and Marriage (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1899)
    New What It Means to Be a Wife, Helen Watterson Moody, (Ladies Home Journal, March 1899)
    New The True Meaning of Motherhood,Helen Watterson Moody, (Ladies Home Journal, May 1899)
    New What Women Find to Do all Day (Ladies Home Journal, April 1899)
    New The Evolution of Woman in the South, Walter Gregory, (Godeys Magazine, October 1897)
    
PART II. THE AWAKENING: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    
  A Critical History of The Awakening
    
  Feminist Criticism and The Awakening
    What Is Feminist Criticism?
    Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Feminist Perspective:
       Elaine Showalter, Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book
    
  Gender Criticism and The Awakening
    What Is Gender Criticism?
    Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Gender Perspective:
       New Elizabeth LeBlanc, The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening
    
  New Historicism and The Awakening
    What Is New Historicism?
    New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
    A New Historicist Perspective:
       Margit Stange, Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening
    
  Deconstruction and The Awakening
    What Is Deconstruction?
    Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
    A Deconstructionist Perspective:
       Patricia S. Yaeger, "A Language Which Nobody Understood": Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening
    
  Reader-Response and The Awakening
    What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
    Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Reader-Response Perspective:
       Paula A. Treichler, The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis
    
  New Combining Critical Perspectives:
    Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Un-utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopins The Awakening
    
  Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
  About the Contributors

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Kate Chopin; Edited by Nancy A. Walker

Product details

• Authors: Kate Chopin, Kate Walker Chopin, Walker
• Assisted by: Nancy A. Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1999
• EAN: 9780312195755
• ISBN: 978-0-312-19575-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism; Case Study in Contemporary Cri; Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature