The Awakening (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

by KateChopin (Author), NancyA.Walker (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $5.04

  This volume reprints the full text of The Awakening, together with a detailed introduction placing the work in its biographical and historical context. Five contemporary critical essays reflecting diverse ways of approaching the text are also reprinted, including an essay from Elaine Showalter giving a feminist perspective on the work.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children gradually awakens, to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage.

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.29

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.18

  The heroine of this story, Edna Pontellier, goes through the stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom. On publication in 1899, this book provided a frank treatment on adultery which aroused a storm of controversy.