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Kate Chopin & The Awakening

Kate Chopin & The Awakening. Reader Responses. As You Read the Slides. What can you tell about each author? How did that affect their reading of the book?. 1. Critical Responses in 1899 ( Published April 1899). “Trite and sordid” “Essentially vulgar”

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Kate Chopin & The Awakening

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  1. Kate Chopin & The Awakening Reader Responses

  2. As You Read the Slides • What can you tell about each author? • How did that affect their reading of the book?

  3. 1. Critical Responses in 1899(Published April 1899) • “Trite and sordid” • “Essentially vulgar” • “Unhealthily introspective and morbid in feeling” • “. . .its disagreeable glimpses of sensuality are repellent" (from The Outlook,1899)

  4. 2. From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (1899) "It is not a healthy book; if it points any particular moral or teaches any lesson, the fact is not apparent. . . . Mrs. Pontellier does not love her husband. The poison of passion seems to have entered her system, with her mother's milk.“

  5. 3. From The Providence Sunday Journal (1899) "The worst of such stories is that they will fall into the hands of youth, leading them to dwell on things that only matured persons can understand, and promoting unholy imaginations and unclean desires. It is nauseating to remember that those who object to the bluntness of our older writers will excuse and justify the gilded dirt of these latter days."

  6. 4. The Chicago Tribune June 1, 1899 “That the book is strong and that Miss Chopin has a keen knowledge of certain phases of feminine character will not be denied. But it was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the overworked field of sex fiction.”

  7. 5. Contemporary Response to The Awakening “She’s one of those writers whose sense of craft puts her right on the edge of poetry. . . . The rediscovery of The Awakening came as a Godsend, the most incredible gift to the women’s movement” Prof.Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory U.

  8. 6. “The Awakening is consummate art. The theme is difficult, but it is handled with cunning craft. The work is more than unusual. It is unique. The integrity of its art is that of well-knit individuality at one with itself, with nothing superfluous to weaken the impression of a perfect whole.” C.L. Deyo, reviewer

  9. 8. From The Nation (1899) "Had [Chopin] lived by Prof. William James's advice to do one thing a day one does not want to do (in Creole society, two would perhaps be better), flirted less and looked after her children more, or even assisted at more accouchements . . . we need not have been put to the unpleasantness of reading about her and the temptations she trumped up for herself."

  10. Now, Compare yourself to one of the critics. How are you different? Do they seem to have the same issues with the book that you might? In what ways might you be similar? How does the different age/time/place of the reader change the meaning of the book?

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