Contents
- The Text of The Awakening
- Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin’s Notebook: "A Solitary Soul"
- The Awakening
- Biographical and Historical Contexts
- Editor’s Note: Biography
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- Emily Toth, A New Biographical Approach
- Editor’s Note: Contexts of The Awakening
- An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler
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- Duties of the Wife
- Avoid All Causes of Complaint
- Beware of Confidants
- Influence of Mothers
- Reception Days
- Rules for Summer Resorts
- Flirtation and Increasing Fastness of Manner
- Musicales
- The Street Manners of a Lady
- Places of Amusement
- Formal Dinner Parties
- Dress to Suit the Occasion
- Carriage Dress
- The Full Dinner Dress
- Costumes for Country and Sea-side
- Bathing Dresses
- Fashion Plates from Harper’s Bazar
- Mary L. Shaffter, Creole Women
- Wilbur Fisk Tillett, [Southern Womanhood]
- Dorothy Dix, Are Women Growing Selfish?
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- The American Wife
- Summer Flirtations
- A Strike for Liberty
- Women and Suicide
- Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman), From Women and Economics
- Thorstein Veblen, [Conspicuous Consumption and the Servant-Wife]
- Criticism
- Editor’s Note: History of the Criticism of The Awakening
- CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
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- From Book News (March 1899)
- From The Mirror (May 4, 1899)
- From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (May 13, 1899)
- From the St. Louis Daily Post Dispatch (May 20, 1899)
- From the Chicago Times-Herald (June 1, 1899)
- From The Outlook (June 3, 1899)
- From the Providence Sunday Journal (June 4, 1899)
- From the New Orleans Times-Democrat (June 18, 1899)
- From Public Opinion (June 22, 1899)
- From Literature (June 23, 1899)
- From the New York Times (June 24, 1899)
- From the Pittsburgh Leader (July 8, 1899)
- From The Dial (August 1, 1899)
- From The Nation (August 3, 1899)
- From The Congregationalist (August 24, 1899)
- Letters from "Lady Janet Scammon Young" and "Dr. Dunrobin Thomson"
- Chopin’s "Retraction"
- ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
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- Percival Pollard, [The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman]
- Daniel S. Rankin, [Influences Upon the Novel]
- Cyrille Arnavon, [An American Madame Bovary]
- Kenneth Eble, [A Forgotten Novel]
- Marie Fletcher, [The Southern Woman in Fiction]
- Larzer Ziff, From The American 1890s
- George Arms, [Contrasting Forces in the Novel]
- Per Seyersted, [Kate Chopin and the American Realists]
- George M. Spangler, [The Ending of the Novel]
- John R. May, Local Color in The Awakening
- Lewis Leary, [Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman]
- Jules Chametzky, [Edna and the "Woman Question"]
- Donald A. Ringe, [Romantic Imagery]
- Ruth Sullivan and Stewart Smith, [Narrative Stance]
- Cynthia Griffin Wolff, [Thanatos and Eros]
- Suzanne Wolkenfeld, EdnaŠs Suicide: The Problem of the One and the Many
- Margo Culley, Edna Pontellier: "A Solitary Soul"
- Nancy Walker, [Feminist or Naturalist?]
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, [Progression and Regression in Edna Pontellier]
- Paula A. Treichler, [Language and Ambiguity]
- Sandra M. Gilbert, [The Second Coming of Aphrodite]
- Lee R. Edwards, [Sexuality, Maternity, and Selfhood]
- Patricia S. Yaeger, [Language and Female Emancipation]
- Anna Shannon Elfenbein, [American Racial and Sexual Mythology]
- Helen Taylor, [Gender, Race, and Religion]
- Elizabeth Ammons, [Women of Color in The Awakening]
- Elaine Showalter, [Chopin and American Women Writers]
- Kate Chopin: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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