The Awakening, Second Edition
| Book | The Awakening |
| Editor | Margo Culley |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publisher Series | Norton Critical Editions |
| Copyright Holder | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
| Composition | PennSet, Inc. |
| Manufacturing by | Courier |
| Book Design by | Antonina Krass |
| Essay by | Emily Toth, Mary L. Shaffter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett, Dorothy Dix, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Thorstein Veblen, Percival Pollard, Daniel S. Rankin, Cyrille Arnavon, Kenneth Elbe, Marie Fletcher, Larzer Ziff, George Arms, Per Seyersted, George M. Spangler, John R. May, Lewis Leary, Jules Chametzky, Donald A. Ringe, Ruth Sullivan, Stewart Smith, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Suzanne Wolkenfeld, Margo Culley, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Anna Shannon Elfenbein, Helen Taylor, Elizabeth Ammons, Elaine Showalter |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York • London |
| Copyright | 1994 |
| Copyright | 1976 |
| Pages / Font | 324 pages / Elektra with the display set in Bernhard Modern |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | PS1294.C63A6 1994 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 813'.4—dc20 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 92-40445 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-393-96057-9 |
| Printer's Key | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 |
| Edition No. | 2 |
| Chapters | Preface to the Second Edition 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 > Emily Toth • A New Biographical Approach Editor's Note: Contexts of The Awakening > An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler >> Duties of the Wife >> Avoid All Causes for 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 >> Dress for Receiving Calls >> 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? >> 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 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 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 Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 25, 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 Percival Pollard • [The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman] Daniel S. Rankin • [Influences Upon the Novel] Cyrille Arnavon • [An American Madame Bovary] Kenneth Elbe • [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 • Edna's 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, Rance, and Region] Elizabeth Ammons • [Women of Color in The Awakening] Elaine Showalter • [Chopin and American Women Writers] Kate Chopin: A Chronology Selected Bibliography |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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