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

Tradition and the female talent: The awakening as a solitary book / Elaine Showalter -- Personal property: exchange value and the female self in The awakening / Margit Stange -- Thanatos and eros: Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- "A language which nobody understood": emancipatory strategies in The awakening / Patricia S. Yaeger -- The construction of ambiguity in The awakening: a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler.