The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Awakening is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive young wife and the mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. Edna feels herself trapped in a marriage where she is unable to express her passionate sensuality and as a result explores a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with a younger man during one summer while her husband is away. Liberated by this experience she sends her children away and is determined to live a more independent and self-determined life. This behavior would lead to her downfall as it was not seen favorably by the members of her conservative 19th century southern community. The Awakening is a landmark modernist work which illustrates the confines of late 19th century America for women and the beginning of an era of changing social attitudes towards their role in society. The liberal portrayal of Edna in The Awakening was meet with great criticism when it was first published and essentially ended Chopin's literary career. The reaction to its publication is indicative of the social attitude towards increasing freedom for women during this era. At the same time the novel was a harbinger of the greater independence that was soon to come for women in America. This edition also contains a collection of seventeen of Chopin's most popular short stories and is printed on premium acid-free paper.

From the first pages of The Awakening we are pulled into territory that feels utterly current and familiar, with an undercurrent more dangerous than romantic comedy * Guardian *
Kate Chopin is a pioneer in the treatment of sexuality in American literature. . She does not speak only to women, but she speaks most powerfully about them * The Times *
A Creole Bovary is this little novel of Miss Chopin’s -- Willa Cather
Chopin’s deceptively slight novel is the kind of book revolutions are made of * Harper’s Bazaar *
This landmark feminist novel, first published in 1899, remains startlingly relevant -- Judy Blume

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis in 1850 to a Creole mother and an Irish father. Educated at St Louis’ Sacred Heart Academy, Chopin went on to reject her Catholic faith and embraced a free-thinking philosophy inspired by writers such as Darwin and Huxley. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, who died in 1882 of yellow fever. A widow at only thirty-two with six children, she eventually moved home to St Louis where she began writing fiction. She completed three novels and close to one hundred short stories which were published in prominent magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Vogue. She died in 1904.

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ISBN 13	9781509854127
ISBN 10	1509854126
Titel	The Awakening
Autor	Kate Chopin
Serie	Macmillan Collector's Library
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-09-06
Seitenanzahl	408
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