{"product_id":"kate-chopins-the-awakening-being-a-new-woman-von-melissa-gronebaum","title":"Kate Chopin's \"The Awakening\". Being a 'New Woman'","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 3,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Kate Chopin¿s ¿The Awakening¿, which is today seen as an ¿important early feminist text¿, [hungry minds], was published for the very first time in 1899. Many readers, mostly men ¿who wished women would remain at home¿ [book: criticism], were shocked how Chopin, who was seen as a ¿regional writer¿ [book: criticism], could publish such a rebellious novel. Since female writers were supposed to ¿stick with ladylike subjects¿ [book: criticism] Ednäs story was not desirable, and men did not want to let women get any revolutionized ideas about ¿New Woman fantasies¿. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scandal about ¿The Awakening¿ spoiled its chance to become popular at first and so it did not come to public attention till the 1960s, when feminist movements took place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday it belongs to the canon of important American Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel ¿The Awakening¿ contains the story about a respectable woman of the late 1800s. Between the centuries Edna Pontellier is trapped in New Orleans¿ upper-class, the Creole society, with its old fashioned thinking. On the contrary, she is already having new society ideas ¿ the ideas of a New Century¿s Woman. During her summer stay at Grand Isles she collects a lot of new experiences and gets to know some new friends, for example Robert, with whom she falls in love with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656586869\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656586869","offer_id":39433537159261,"sku":"9783656586869","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a67404e1-2001-41f8-8267-c606438728c0.jpg?v=1778133417","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/kate-chopins-the-awakening-being-a-new-woman-von-melissa-gronebaum","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}