About the Series About this Volume PART ONE: THE AWAKENING: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts The Complete Text Cultural Documents: Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening Advertisements from Women's Magazines Fashion Plates from Women's Magazines A People who Live Amid Romance; R. McEnery Stuart (Ladies Home Journal, December 1896) The Artist and Marriage (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1899) What it Means to be a Wife; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, March 1899) The True Meaning of Motherhood; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, May 1899) What Women Find to do All Day (Ladies Home Journal, April 1899) The Evolution of Woman in the South; W. Gregory (Godey's Magazine, October 1897) PART TWO: THE AWAKENING: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Feminist Criticism and The Awakening A Feminist Perspective: Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book; E. Showalter The New Historicism and The Awakening A New Historicist Perspective: Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening; M. Stange Gender Criticism and The Awakening A Gender Perspective: The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening; E. LeBlanc Deconstruction and The Awakening A Deconstructionist Perspective: 'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening; P. S. Yaeger Reader-Response and The Awakening A Reader-Response Perspective: The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis; P. A. Treichler Combining Critical Perspectives: Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening; C. Griffin Wolff Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms About the Contributors