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147 pages : 22 cm Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is a masterpiece of feminist philosophy, a novel whose pioneering vision and keen literary sensibility have established it as a landmark in the development of feminist awareness and made it required reading in courses worldwide. The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier - a sensitive and artistic woman married to a New Orleans Creole - whose urgent quest for human freedom and truth is fulfilled by none of the options prescribed by traditional late-nineteenth-century society. The social and economic security her husband provides, motherhood to her two sons, even romantic pleasure and sexual passion are available to Edna - yet none addresses her essential need "to realize her position in the universe as a human being." As Joyce Dyer shows us in this expert introduction to Chopin's famous novel, Edna's inexorable awakening - to her needs and talents, to her right to pursue them, and finally to the impossibility of living with them in her time - can end only in tragedy. Dyer refuses to judge Edna, but rather, chooses to do what Edna asks of us all in her final scene: to understand her. Dyer begins with an eloquent analysis of

Author

Dyer, Joyce

Publisher

New York : Twayne ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805783834

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24