Kate Chopin The Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives

This edition of Chopin's classic novel presents the 1969 Seyersted text along with five critical essays -- newly commissioned or revised for a student audience -- that read The Awakening from five contemporary critical perspectives:

Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter
The New Historicism by Margit Stange
Psychoanalytic Criticism by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Deconstruction by Patricia S. Yaeger
Reader-Response Criticism by Paula A. Treichler

Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.

The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Chopin and The Awakening, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.