SOURCE: Showalter, Elaine. “Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book.” In New Essays on The Awakening, edited by Wendy Martin, pp. 33-57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
In the following essay, Showalter examines the ways in which Chopin defied the female literary tradition with The Awakening.
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