The Awakening and Selected Stories
By: Kate Chopin ; edited with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert.
Contributors: Gilbert, Sandra M.
Edition: 2003 edition (11)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780142437322
Copyright date: 1984
Subjects: Women -- Louisiana -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's literary and social reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. 

Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. 

In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories collected here (including "Emancipation," "At the 'Cadian Ball," and "Désirée's Baby") from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century, to their place among other concerns of fin de siècle writers in America and Europe, to their impact on contemporary feminist writing.
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