The Awakening
Edition: First Edition (1)
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Blacksburg, VA
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781617202414
Copyright date: 2011
Description: The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism and a precursor to American modernism and the great southern novelists such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williarns. Edna Pontellier struggles to reconcile her views of femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. An important and powerful look into the beginnings of modern feminism literature.
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