OK, so we are finally done with the philosophical musings of Vriginia Woolf -- and now we are jumping into some "real" fiction: Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, The Awakening. This book totally scandalized folks when it was first published (and then forgotten) and it took until the 1970's before this novel was "rescued" and brought back to public attention. Click here for a great web site about this novel! Click here for another great link as well!
One of the earliest novels to focus on a woman's interior thinking, the plot of The Awakening centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. For Tuesday, you need to read the first nine chapters of the book -- but the chapters are short so this shouldn't take you too long!
See you in class on Tuesday! :D
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