num_pages: 356
description: This edition of Chopin's classic novel presents the 1969 Seyersted text along with five critical essays -- newly commissioned or revised for a student audience -- that read The Awakening from five contemporary critical perspectives:Feminist Criticism by Elaine ShowalterThe New Historicism by Margit StangePsychoanalytic Criticism by Cynthia Griffin WolffDeconstruction by Patricia S. YaegerReader-Response Criticism by Paula A. TreichlerEach critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Chopin and The Awakening, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
language: English
title: The Awakening:
titlecomplete: The Awakening:
characters: Robert Lebrun, Alcée Arobin, Adèle Ratignolle, Edna Pontellier, Mademoiselle Reisz, Léonce Pontellier
genres: Fiction, American, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Feminism, High School, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 201600
places: Grand Isle, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
publisher: Palgrave HE UK