Awakening: Collins Classics

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was an American author of short stories and novels for both adults and children. She is now considered by many to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.

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'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, 'The Storm'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Contains the full text of the novel
Looks at the novel from many different critical perspectives, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and feminist
This new edition also contains contextual documents

She does not speak only to women, but she speaks most powerfully about them.

About the Series.- About this Volume.- PART ONE: THE AWAKENING: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts.- The Complete Text.- Cultural Documents:.- Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening.- Advertisements from Women's Magazines.- Fashion Plates from Women's Magazines.- A People who Live Amid Romance; R. McEnery Stuart (Ladies Home Journal, December 1896).- The Artist and Marriage (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1899).- What it Means to be a Wife; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, March 1899).- The True Meaning of Motherhood; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, May 1899).- What Women Find to do All Day (Ladies Home Journal, April 1899).- The Evolution of Woman in the South; W. Gregory (Godey's Magazine, October 1897).- PART TWO: THE AWAKENING: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Feminist Criticism and The Awakening.- A Feminist Perspective: Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book; E. Showalter.- The New Historicism and The Awakening.- A New Historicist Perspective: Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening; M. Stange.- Gender Criticism and The Awakening.- A Gender Perspective: The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening; E. LeBlanc.- Deconstruction and The Awakening.- A Deconstructionist Perspective: 'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening; P. S. Yaeger.- Reader-Response and The Awakening.- A Reader-Response Perspective: The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis; P. A. Treichler.- Combining Critical Perspectives: Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening; C. Griffin Wolff.- Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.- About the Contributors.