Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In elementary school, I heard a story about the Liberty Bell. Philadelphians, I was told, were ...

Set in upper-class, patriarchal Louisiana society, ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin is one of the first works of feminist literature in American history. So many of the themes, sentiments, and struggles ...

Sometimes, books emerge and are immediately recognized as landmark texts, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and catapulting their authors to the "voice of a generation" fame. Kate Chopin's "The ...

Early in “The Awakening” — Kate Chopin’s great feminist novel of identity and self-consciousness, which still throbs with relevance more than 120 years after its publication — the heroine’s husband ...