Kate Chopin's The Awakening - 9780415238205

Taylor & Francis

Kate Chopin's The AwakeningA Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook\nAuthor(s): Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415238205, 978-0415238205\nSynopsis\nDamned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening [tel] is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.\nThis sourcebook combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to provide the ideal introduction to this widely debated novel. The editors offer:\n\n* extensive coverage of the contexts to the work, including biographical information on Chopin and the social and historical backgrounds to her writing\n* an outline of the critical reception of the novel from the early reviews to contemporary debates, and extracts from influential essays\n* selected chapters of the original text, reproduced with extensive commentary on .