Kate Chopin’s absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who, during a summer holiday, begins to question her conventional life. In this path-breaking novel, Chopin speculates more daringly than any before her about the consequences for middle-class women of late-nineteenth-century society’s unleashing of female desire. Celebrated today as a key text in American literature, it scandalized early critics and, precisely bec...
قائمة المحتويات
Contents
Introduction by Rafael Walker
The Awakening
Emancipation. A Life Fable
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Miss Witherwell’s Mistake
Désirée’s Baby
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عن المؤلف
Rafael Walker is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published on a wide range of topics in American literature, includin...