Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival

Contents

vii c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 bernard koloski Part 1 Feminisms 1. My Part in Reviving Kate Chopin 15 emily toth 2. Linked Fortunes: Kate Chopin, the Short Story (and Me) 32 barbara c. ewell 3. Bringing Kate Chopin to Britain: A Transatlantic Perspective 47 helen taylor 4. Creating the New American Library’s Awakening 61 barbara h. solomon 5. So Long As We Read Chopin 77 mary e. papke Part 2 Foundations 6. My Life with Kate Chopin 97 thomas bonner jr. 7. On First Looking (and Looking Once Again) into Chopin’s Fiction: Kate and Ernest and “A Pair of Silk Stockings” 112 robert d. arner viii contents 8. The Death of Edna Pontellier and the Card Catalog 131 marlene springer 9. Romantic Overtures 141 lynda s. boren Part 3 Expansions 10. Kate Chopin and the Future of Short Fiction Studies 157 susan lohafer 11. Reckoning with Race in The Awakening 173 anna shannon elfenbein 12. Feeling the Countercurrent 184 bernard koloski Bibliography 201 Contributors 209 Index 213 ...