The Awakening
About this book
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics.
Subjects
- adultery
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- classic literature
- criticism and interpretation
- feminist fiction
- feminist literature
- femmes
- fiction
- fiction, psychological
- history
- interpersonal attraction
- interpersonal relations
- literary fiction
- louisiana creoles
- louisiana, fiction
- manners and customs
- man-woman relationships
- marriage
- married people
- married people, fiction
- married women
- modern literature
- new orleans (la.), fiction
- psychological fiction
- psychology
- rezeption
- romance fiction
- romans, nouvelles
- self-actualization (psychology)
- short stories
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- women