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New Essays on The Awakening (The American Novel)

By Wendy Martin

Book information

Year
1988
ISBN
9780521314459, 9780521307123, 9780511624483, 0521314453, 0521307120, 0511624484
LCC
PS1294.C63 A6436 1988
Open Library ID
OL2400417M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
827 kB (847318 bytes)
Pages
164\160
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

When The Awakening was first published in 1899 it was an extraordinarily controversial book. One of the first American novels to concern itself with themes of adultery and divorce, it was widely attacked as 'vulgar' and 'unhealthy'. In her introduction to this collection, Wendy Martin discusses the historical background of the novel and analyses the heroine's evolution from a role of traditional femininity to one of autonomous individualism. The essays that follow explore other central themes of the novel, as well as locating Chopin in the tradition of American women novelists and discussing her status as a pre-modernist writer.

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