Women in 19th-century novels: Rebellious wives had to die!.
Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?.
Building Utopia: The most important pre-Marx socialists.
The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos.
When “flower children” spurred kids to abandon childhood.
In Britain ‘it is good to kill an admiral from time to time’.
Why Voltaire mocked Canada as ‘a few acres of snow’?.
Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery.
The Sorrows of Young Werther: These passages inspired suicide.
Roald Dahl’s The Witches: The paragraphs critics called sexist.
A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?.
The Jihadi Manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones.
A Farewell to Arms: All the dirty words you won’t find in the novel.
Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on sex and date rape from Rome.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?.
A Light in the Attic: Controversial poems.
#The awakening book code#
Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves.
The Metamorphosis: The final scene is more disturbing than the first.
Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel.
Why Italy banned Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms?.
What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?.
The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education.
Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages.
From Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana: Part 1,” Journal of Negro History (1916).
From Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood (1912).
Coleman, Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
From Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated: The Commercial, Social, Political and General History of New Orleans (1873).
From Georgene Corry Benham, Polite Life and Etiquette, or What is Right and the Social Acts (1891).
Wells, Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1891)
From Blunders in Behavior Corrected (1880).
From Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1914).
From Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898).
From “Wife Who Retains Her Maiden Name and Won’t Obey,” St.
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892).
Barr, and Rose Terry Cooke, “Women’s Views of Divorce,”
From Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841).
The Congregationalist (24 August 1899)Īppendix B: Background, Sources, and Contexts.
William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 August 1899).
Sibert, Pittsburgh Leader (8 July 1899).
From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (25 June 1899).
New Orleans Times-Democrat (18 June 1899).
From the Chicago Times-Herald (1 June 1899).
R” (1896)įrom “Is Love Divine? The Question Answered by Three Ladies Well Known in St. “The Storm: A Sequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’” (1898) “Madame Célestin’s Divorce,” from Bayou Folk (1894) I am eagerly anticipating introducing this edition to my students.” - Theresa Flowers, University of North Texas The notes are also excellent, adding another dimension to the text. There are clear explanations of the issues of race and gender in Louisiana and the South in general. “The introduction sets the stage for using the text in either literature or women’s studies classes by describing not only Kate Chopin’s work but also the setting in America that existed during her lifetime. I will definitely be using this text in my own classroom and for my own research.” - Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Kudos to Broadview and these editors, who have provided a valuable service for scholars and students of southern and women’s literature. The extensive introduction not only situates the novel in this era of the New Woman, but also clarifies problematic regional terms such as ‘Creole.’ This edition illuminates the local and national settings of Chopin’s novel for a new generation of readers. “This is the most richly comprehensive and contextualized edition of Chopin’s novel to date. For the classroom, a treasure-I can’t imagine using any other edition.” - T. From Chopin’s other stories and personal writings to her poetry and non-fiction from contemporary responses to her work in the popular press to the intellectual legacy she was drawing upon in her writing from the etiquette guides of the era to accounts of its great hurricane to period sketches of New Orleans social history, all of this together combines to situate The Awakening in a kaleidoscopic set of intellectual and cultural frameworks. “This edition of Chopin’s masterpiece contextualizes her work in a way that creates endless possibilities for teachers and students.