SOURCE: Griffin Wolff, Cynthia. “Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in The Awakening.” Studies in American Fiction 24, no. 1 (spring 1996): 3-23.
In the following essay, Wolff examines The Awakening in terms of nineteenth-century medical discourse on female sexuality.
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