Machine derived contents note: About the Series -- About this Volume -- Part I. The Awakening : The Complete Text -- Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts -- The Complete Text [The 1969 Seyersted Edition] -- New Cultural Documents -- New Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening : -- From "Recent Novels" ( The Nation 69, 3 August 1899, 96) -- From "Books of the Week" ( Providence Sunday Journal , 4 June 1899, 15) -- New Two Principles in Recent American Fiction, James Lane Allen ( The Altantic Monthly , October 1897) -- New Home Study for Young Ladies: Visiting Cards (from Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of Entertaining Knowledge , 1887) -- New The Dressing-Table -- New Advertisements from Women's Magazines -- Lablanche Face Powder ( Ladies Home Journal , August 1899) -- Braided Wire Bristles and Forms ( Ladies Home Journal , May 1899) -- Ferris's Good Sense Corset Waists: When Beauty Reigns ( Harper's Magazine , January 1899) -- The Whitely Exerciser ( Ladies Home Journal , December 1896) -- New Fashion Plates from Women's Magazines -- Plate No. 7 ( Godey's Magazine , January 1897) -- Plate No. 6 ( Godey's Magazine , March 1897) -- Plate No. 7 ( Godey's Magazine , August 1897) -- New A People Who Live Amid Romance, Ruth McEnery Stuart, ( Ladies Home Journal , December 1896) -- New The Artist and Marriage ( The Atlantic Monthly , January 1899) -- New What It Means to Be a Wife, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , March 1899) -- New The True Meaning of Motherhood, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , May 1899) -- New What Women Find to Do all Day ( Ladies Home Journal , April 1899) -- New The Evolution of Woman in the South, Walter Gregory, ( Godey's Magazine , October 1897) -- Part Ii. The Awakening : A Case Study In Contemporary Criticism -- A Critical History of The Awakening -- Feminist Criticism and The Awakening -- What Is Feminist Criticism? -- Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Feminist Perspective: -- Elaine Showalter, Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book -- Gender Criticism and The Awakening -- What Is Gender Criticism? -- Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Gender Perspective: -- New Elizabeth LeBlanc, The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening -- New Historicism and The Awakening -- What Is New Historicism? -- New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography -- A New Historicist Perspective: -- Margit Stange, Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening -- Deconstruction and The Awakening -- What Is Deconstruction? -- Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography -- A Deconstructionist Perspective: -- Patricia S. Yaeger, "A Language Which Nobody Understood": Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening -- Reader-Response and The Awakening -- What Is Reader-Response Criticism? -- Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Reader-Response Perspective: -- Paula A. Treichler, The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening : A Linguistic Analysis -- New Combining Critical Perspectives: -- Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Un-utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening -- Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms -- About the Contributors.