The Awakening
by Kate-Chopin
This annotated edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening combines the 1899 novel with documents on its historical and cultural setting, early reviews, and an extensive selection of critical essays. Edited by Margo Culley, it offers varied perspectives on the work’s themes, publication, reception, and literary significance.
About This Book
This annotated edition presents Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening, which follows a Victorian-era woman who discovers passionate physical love with a young man encountered while on vacation.
Alongside the novel, the volume includes biographical, historical, and cultural documents related to its publication and context.
Additional materials address etiquette, marriage, womanhood, fashion, social conduct, regional identity, and changing ideas about women in the period.
A substantial selection of critical essays examines the novel’s reception, narrative techniques, imagery, sexuality, maternity, selfhood, gender, race, region, and female emancipation.
Edited by Margo Culley, this second edition also includes an editor’s note on the history of criticism and bibliographical references.
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