Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-175) and index.
What we do and don't know about Kate Chopin's life / Emily Toth -- At fault : a reappraisal of kate Chopin's other novel / Donna Campbell -- Kate Chopin and the subject of childhood / Pamela Knights -- "Race" and ethnicity in Kate Chopin's fiction / Susan Castillo -- Kate Chopin on fashion in a Darwinian world / Katherine Joslin -- The awakening and new woman fiction / Ann Heilmann -- Reading Kate Chopin through contemporary French feminist theory / Michael Worton -- The awakening as literary innovation : Chopin, Maupassant and the evolution of genre / Elizabeth Nolan -- Kate Chopin, choice and modernism / Avril Horner -- "The perfume of the past" : Kate Chopin and post-colonial New Orleans / Helen Taylor -- The awakening : the first 100 years / Bernard Koloski.
Chopin, Kate,- 1850-1904- Criticism and interpretation