Reading American Classics: Kate Chopin’s THE AWAKENING
It’s interesting to read an end-of-the-century novel from the opposite side of the intervening twentieth century, for though there is in Chopin’s novel no preoccupation with the remorseless cycle of measured time, the intervening hundred twenty-three years–and all their evolutions, both cultural and literary–are going to be part of the modern reader’s context. Be aware: …
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