Kate Chopin reconsidered: beyond the Bayou

Kate Chopin thinks back through her mothers : three stories by Kate Chopin / Emily Toth French Creole portraits : the Chopin family from Natchitoches Parish / Jean Bardot "What are the prospects for the book?" : rewriting a woman's life / Heather Kirk Thomas The awakening of female artistry / Deborah E. Barker The awakening : a recognition of confinement / Dorothy H. Jacobs The quintessence of Chopinism / Martha Fodaski Black The economics of the body in Kate Chopin's The awakening / John Carlos Rowe The awakening : the economics of tension / Doris Davis Kate Chopin and the dream of female selfhood / Barbara C. Ewell

Finding the self at home : Chopin's The awakening and Cather's The professor's house / Katherine Joslin

Taming the sirens : self-possession and the strategies of art in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Lynda S. Boren

Chopin's movement toward universal myth / Sara deSaussure Davis

Kate Chopin's "Charlie" / Anne M. Blythe

Insistent refrains and self-discovery : accompanied awakenings in three stories by Kate Chopin / Nancy S. Ellis.