The Awakening - Chopin, Kate; Evans, Robert C., 1955- (Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2014)
On The awakening / Bernard Koloski -- Biography of Kate Chopin / Courtney Rottgering -- "Oh! To be able to paint in color rather than in words!" : Kate Chopin's The awakening and Impressionism / Julieann Veronica Ulin -- Reactions to the chief characters in Kate Chopin's The awakening : positive, negative, and miscellaneous / Stephen Paul Bray and Sarah Fredericks -- Surprises, complications, unexpected shifts, and ironic juxtapositions in Kate Chopin's The awakening ; Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Huckleberry Finn, and The awakening ; Was The awakening banned or burned? What did Chopin think worth reading? (And other new archival evidence about Kate Chopin's life and writings) / Robert C. Evans -- A letter to students as they read Kate Chopin's The awakening / Jocye Dyer -- Defending The awakening : a response to Hugh J. Dawson ; In defense of Robert Lebrun in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Robert C. Evans -- Tourism and landscape in The awakening / Jeffrey Melton -- Kate Chopin's The awakening and her Louisiana fiction as travel literature / Thomas Bonner, Jr. -- Catching up with Kate Chopin : reading Chopin reading / Mary E. Papke -- In praise of folly : gendered discourse in The awakening / Robert D. Arner -- Humor in Chopin's The awakening / Robert C. Evans -- 'Casting aside that fictitious self' : The awakening as a cautionary tale / Peter J. Ramos -- 'The subtle quivering life' : reading The awakening through Kate Chopin / David Z. Wehner -- Kate Chopin's The awakening, authenticity and the artist / Janet Beer and Helena Goodwyn.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.
Keywords: Chopin, Kate, -- 1850-1904.; Feminism in literature; Sex role in literature