Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 21, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- A classic Southern setting frames a searching conflict over femininity, motherhood, and social expectation.
- Genres
- Feminist Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author), The Classics
- Published
- Start Publishing PD, May 21, 2024
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The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism and a precursor to American modernism and the great southern novelists such as William Faulkner Flannery O'Connor Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams. Edna Pontellier struggles to reconcile her views of femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South.
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A classic Southern setting frames a searching conflict over femininity, motherhood, and social expectation.
Come here for
- Turn-of-the-century Louisiana and questions that unsettle gender expectations
Expect
- A landmark novel centered on femininity and motherhood
- Selected short stories alongside the novel
Where it sits
| Feminist Fiction | 46% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 40% |
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Historical Fiction
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Authors
- Kate Chopin
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- May 21, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics