The Awakening and Other Writings

ISBN-13: 9781551113494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str.

Kate Chopin

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Published in 1899, The Awakening ignited a firestorm of controversy. Reviewers criticized the book for its tacit endorsement of adultery, its frank depiction of a woman's sexual frustration, and its overt rejection of conventional expectations for women's roles and behaviour. Chopin's best-known and acclaimed work is presented here with a selection of her other fiction, as well as her poetry, journalism, and letters. A selection of contemporary reviews and historical materials on women's rights, sexuality, and etiquette, are also included.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kate Chopin: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Awakening

Other Fiction

• From At Fault (1890)
  “At Chênière Caminada” (1893)
  “Madame Célestin’s Divorce,” from Bayou Folk (1894)
  “A Respectable Woman” (1894)
  “An Egyptian Cigarette” (1897)
  “The Storm: A Sequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’” (1898)

Poetry

• “A Fancy” (1892)
  “To Mrs B_______” (1896)
  “To A Lady at the Piano” — “Mrs. R” (1896)
  “A Document in Madness” (1898)
  “The Haunted Chamber” (1899)
  “A day with a splash of sunlight” (1899)

Journals and Essays

• “Emancipation. A Life Fable” (1869-70)
  “Solitude” (1895)
  from “Is Love Divine? The Question Answered by Three Ladies Well Known in St. Louis Society” (1898)
  “Reflection” (1899)

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. From Frances Porcher, The Mirror [St. Louis] (4 May 1899)
2. From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (13 May 1899)
3. From C.L. Deyo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (20 May 1899)
4. From G.B., St. Louis Post-Dispatch (21 May 1899)
5. From the Chicago Times-Herald (1 June 1899)
6. New Orleans Times-Democrat (18 June 1899)
7. Public Opinion [New York] (22 June 1899)
8. Literature (23 June 1899)
9. From the Boston Beacon (24 June 1899)
10. From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (25 June 1899)
11. Sibert [Willa Cather], Pittsburgh Leader (8 July 1899)
12. William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 August 1899)
13. The Nation (3 August 1899)
14. Boston Herald (12 August 1899)
15. Indianapolis Journal (14 August 1899)
16. The Congregationalist [Boston] (24 August 1899)

Appendix B: Background, Sources, and Contexts

1. From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841)
2. Algernon Swinburne, “A Cameo” (1866)
3. From Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
4. From Mary A. Livermore, Amelia E. Barr, and Rose Terry Cooke, “Women’s Views of Divorce,” North American Review (1890)
5. From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892)
6. From “Wife Who Retains Her Maiden Name and Won’t Obey,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (14 May 1895)
7. From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
8. From Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
9. From Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1914)

Appendix C: Etiquette and Social Customs

1. From The Elite Directory of St. Louis Society (1877)
2. From Blunders in Behavior Corrected (1880)
3. From James S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide (1885)
4. From Richard A. Wells, Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1891)
5. From Georgene Corry Benham, Polite Life and Etiquette, or What is Right and the Social Acts (1891)

Appendix D: Louisiana Contexts

1. From Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated: The Commercial, Social, Political and General History of New Orleans (1873)
2. From Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
3. From Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood (1912)
4. From Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana: Part 1,” Journal of Negro History (1916)

Appendix E: The Great Hurricane of 1893

1. From Rose C. Falls, Cheniere Caminada, or The Wind of Death: The Story of the Storm in Louisiana (1893)
2. From Mark Forrest, Wasted by Wind and Water: A Historical and Pictorial Sketch of the Gulf Disaster (1894)
3. From Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Story of Last Island (1889)

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