This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The annotated text of Kate Chopin's modernist novel of marital infidelity, set in New Orleans and Grande Isle, Louisiana.
- A preface, a critical essay, and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley.
- Essays by acclaimed Chopin biographers Per Seyersted and Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period, and contemporary perspectives on womanhood, motherhood, and marriage.
- Forty-five reviews and interpretive essays on The Awakening spanning three centuries.
- A Chronology of Chopin's life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography.
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