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Tables of Contents for The Awakening
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
The Text of The Awakening
2
111
Illustration: Page from Kate Chopin's Notebook: "A Solitary Soul"
2
1
The Awakening
3
110
Biographical and Historical Contexts
113
46
Editor's Note: Bibliography
113
6
Emily Toth
A New Biographical Approach
113
6
Editor's Note: Contexts of The Awakening
119
40
An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler
122
9
Duties of the Wife
122
1
Avoid All Causes for Complaint
122
1
Beware of Confidants
122
1
Influence of Mothers
123
1
Reception Days
123
1
Rules for Summer Resorts
123
1
Flirtation and Increasing Fastness of Manner
124
1
Musicales
124
1
The Street Manners of a Lady
125
1
Places of Amusement
125
1
Formal Dinner Parties
125
1
Dress to Suit the Occasion
126
1
Dress for Receiving Calls
126
1
Carriage Dress
127
1
The Full Dinner Dress
127
1
Costumes for Country and Sea-side
127
1
Bathing Dresses
128
3
Fashion Plates from Harper's Bazar
131
6
Mary L. Shaffter
Creole Women
137
2
Wilbur Fisk Tillett
[Southern Womanhood]
139
5
Dorothy Dix
Are Women Growing Selfish?
144
7
The American Wife
146
1
Summer Flirtations
147
1
A Strike for Liberty
148
2
Women and Suicide
150
1
Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman)
From Women and Economics
151
3
Thorstein Veblen
[Conspicuous Consumption and the Servant-Wife]
154
5
Criticism
159
162
Editor's Note: History of the Criticism of The Awakening
159
2
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
161
18
From Book News (March 1899)
161
1
From The Mirror (May 4, 1899)
162
1
From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (May 13, 1899)
163
1
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 20, 1899)
164
2
From the Chicago Times-Herald (June 1, 1899)
166
1
From The Outlook (June 3, 1899)
166
1
From the Providence Sunday Journal (June 4, 1899)
166
1
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat (June 18, 1899)
167
1
From Public Opinion (June 22, 1899)
168
1
From Literature (June 23, 1899)
168
1
From the New York Times (June 24, 1899)
169
1
From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 25, 1899)
169
1
From the Pittsburgh Leader (July 8, 1899)
170
2
From The Dial (August 1, 1899)
172
1
From The Nation (August 3, 1899)
172
1
From The Congregationalist (August 24, 1899)
173
1
Letters from "Lady Janet Scammon Young" and "Dr. Dunrobin Thomson"
173
5
Chopin's "Retraction"
178
1
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
179
142
Percival Pollard
[The Unlikely Awakening of a Married Woman]
179
2
Daniel S. Rankin
[Influences Upon the Novel]
181
3
Cyrille Arnavon
[An American Madame Bovary]
184
4
Kenneth Eble
[A Forgotten Novel]
188
5
Marie Fletcher
[The Southern Woman in Fiction]
193
3
Larzer Ziff
From The American 1890s
196
2
George Arms
[Contrasting Forces in the Novel]
198
4
Per Seyersted
[Kate Chopin and the American Realists]
202
6
George M. Spangler
[The Ending of the Novel]
208
3
John R. May
Local Color in The Awakening
211
6
Lewis Leary
[Kate Chopin and Walt Whitman]
217
4
Jules Chametzky
[Edna and the "Woman Question"]
221
1
Donald A. Ringe
[Romantic Imagery]
222
5
Ruth Sullivan
Stewart Smith
[Narrative Stance]
227
4
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
[Thanatos and Eros]
231
10
Suzanne Wolkenfeld
Edna's Suicide: The Problem of the One and the Many
241
6
Margo Culley
Edna Pontellier: "A Solitary Soul"
247
5
Nancy Walker
[Feminist or Naturalist?]
252
5
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
[Progression and Regression in Edna Pontellier]
257
6
Paula A. Treichler
[Language and Ambiguity]
263
8
Sandra M. Gilbert
[The Second Coming of Aphrodite]
271
11
Lee R. Edwards
[Sexuality, Maternity, and Selfhood]
282
3
Patricia S. Yaeger
[Language and Female Emancipation]
285
7
Anna Shannon Elfenbein
[American Racial and Sexual Mythology]
292
7
Helen Taylor
[Gender, Race, and Region]
299
10
Elizabeth Ammons
[Women of Color in The Awakening]
309
2
Elaine Showalter
[Chopin and American Women Writers]
311
10
Kate Chopin: A Chronology
321
2
Selected Bibliography
323