The Awakening
, by Chopin, Kate- ISBN: 9780312195755 | 0312195753
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/29/1999
This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students toThe Awakeningfrom the perspectives of feminism, gender (new essay), new historical, deconstructionist, and reader response criticism. An additional new essay demonstrates how various approaches can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by introductions toThe Awakeningand to the criticism, a glossary of critical terms, and (for the first time) contextual documents.