Table of Contents: “…-- "The storm" and the awakening -- "The story of a lady most foolish" -- Private praise and public censure -- In decline and melancholy -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Kate Chopin's life -- Appendix 2: Kate Chopin's writings -- Appendix 3: The alleged banning of the awakening.…”

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Table of Contents: “…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?" …”

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of Kate Chopin's Life --…”
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Table of Contents: “…[From Their day in court] / Percival Pollard ; Stories by Kate Chopin / Joseph J. Reilly ; A forgotten novel : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Kenneth Eble.…”

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of Kate Chopin's life -- General Introduction / Emily Toth -- 1850-1870: Kate O'Flaherty : Leaves of affection ; Commonplace book -- 1871-1884: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin -- 1885-1904: Kate Chopin : Manuscript account books ; "Impressions": Kate Chopin's 1894 diary ; The "Lilia" polka ; Letters and inscriptions ; Newspaper pieces ; Translations ; Rediscovered short stories ; Rankin-Marhefka fragments: portions of short stories ; Poems ; Statements on The Awakening ; Reminiscences about Kitty Garesché ; Last Will and Testament of Kate Chopin -- Appendix : Complete works of Kate Chopin.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Kate Chopin's Life -- General Introduction -- 1850-1870: Kate O'Flaherty -- Leaves of Affection -- Commonplace Book -- 1871-1884: Kate O 'Flaherty Chopin -- 1885-1904: Kate Chopin -- Manuscript Account Books -- "Impressions": Kate Chopin's 1894 Diary -- The "Lilia" Polka -- Letters and Inscriptions -- Newspaper Pieces -- Translations -- Rediscovered Short Stories -- Rankin-Marhefka Fragments: Portions of Short Stories -- Poems -- Statements on The Awakening -- Reminiscences about Kitty Garesche -- Last Will and Testament of Kate Chopin -- APPENDIX: COMPLETE WORKS OF KATE CHOPIN -- NOTES -- CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR KATE CHOPIN SCHOLARS -- INDEX.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Writings about Edith Wharton -- Writings about Kate Chopin…”

Table of Contents: “…ch 1. Background on Kate Chopin -- ch 2. The awakening and women's issues -- ch 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Kate Chopin's Canonical and Market Place: Authorship, Authorization, and Authority -- Coloring Locals: "For Marse Chouchoute," "A Wizard from Gettysburg," and "A Rude Awakening" -- For the Love of Children: Motherhood Lore, Childhood Lore, and the Matter of Prejudice in Five Companion Tales -- Beyond Coloring Locals: After The Awakening, "Charlie," and Conventional Returns.…”

Table of Contents: “…Kate Chopin's life and works -- The context of The Awakening : class, gender, ethnicity, modernity -- The Awakening by Kate Chopin, with annotations by Bernard Koloski.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the New Orleans Story Cycle -- 4. Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk -- Conclusion : The Literary Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Treichler, the construction of ambiguity in The awakening : a linguistic analysis -- Combining perspectives on The awakening -- Cynthia Griffin Wolff, un-utterable longing : the discourse of feminine sexuality in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Glossary of critical and theoretical terms.…”

Table of Contents: “…Diverse responses to Kate Chopin's "The story of an hour" /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Chronology : Kate Chopin's life and work --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Preclosure basics in a Kate Chopin story --…”

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual liberation, social defeat: Kate Chopin --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Rethinking white female silences: Kate Chopin's local color fiction and the politics of white supremacy --…”

Table of Contents: “…The awakening (1899): Kate Chopin's crimes against polite society --…”

Table of Contents: “…The limits of freedom : the fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins --…”

Table of Contents: “…The abyss of inequality: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Novelists of the post-war South: Albion Tourgée, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Female resistance to gender conformity in Kate Chopin's The awakening /…”

Table of Contents: “…Louisa May Alcott : the children's friend -- Charlotte Forten : a woman of character -- Sarah Jane Foster : soldier of light and love -- Kate Chopin : a lady most foolish -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson : genteel poet -- Ida B. …”

Table of Contents: “…from The complete works of Kate Chopin.…”

Table of Contents: “…Southworth -- The riddle of the sphinx: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis -- Louis May Alcott's women artists: "Proving Avis in the wrong" -- Kate Chopin's awakening of female artistry -- Edith Wharton's portrait of a lady in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Authenticating the African-American female artist: Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun.…”

Table of Contents: “…Tradition and an individual talent -- Gilchrist's composite personality and story cycle: transforming Ernest Hemingway -- The new order: picking up where Katherine Anne Porter left off -- The annunciation as dialogue with William Faulkner: giving Caddy Compson and fighting chance -- The reincarnation of Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier in The Anna papers -- No conclusion possible: an organic story cycle.…”

Table of Contents: “…James Baldwin -- Saul Bellow -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Kate Chopin -- Hart Crane -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ralph Ellison -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Robert Lowell -- Norman Mailer -- Flannery O'Connor -- Sylvia Plath -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Adrienne Rich -- Philip Roth -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Nathanael West.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Margery Kempe -- Jane Anger -- Alice Thornton -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Aphra Behn -- Mary Manley -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Shelley -- Harriet Martineau -- Olive Schreiner -- Kate Chopin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Dorothy Richardson -- Anaïs Nin -- Dilys Laing -- Margaret Walker -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner -- Muriel Rukeyser.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua -- The sentimentalists / Mary Kelley -- Thanatos and Eros : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- "The temptation to be a beautiful object" : double standard and double bind in The house of mirth / Judith Fetterley -- The forgotten reaping-hook : sex in My Antonia / Blanche H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Psychoanalytic criticism: The awakening by Kate Chopin, The end of August (1982) and Grand Isle (1992) ; Cultural criticism: A streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams, A streetcar named desire (1951) ; Thematic criticism: "Ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood" by William Wordsworth, Splendor in the grass (1961) -- Teaching literary and adaptation theory. …”

Table of Contents: “…Wilkins Freeman -- Soldier's home / Ernest Hemingway -- The storm / Kate Chopin.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Sedillo -- Home / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The homecoming stranger / Bei Dao -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- The law of life / Jack London -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The street of the Canon / Josephina Niggli -- A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Undoing discursive constructions : alternative rhetorical strategies -- Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Ivy Schweitzer -- America, "fat," and the fetus / Laura Berlant -- Queer nationality / Laura Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman -- "The most suffering class" : gender, class, and consciousness in pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen -- Brava! …”

Table of Contents: “…The problem of voice in American culture, 1850-1930 -- American women's fiction, 1850-1880 : domestic discourses in the writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson -- From the law of the father to the law of the feminine : Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's revisionary voices -- The search for a feminine voice in the works of Kate Chopin -- Herstory in hisland, history in herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's reconstruction of gender and language -- The politics of hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy -- Jessie Faucet's and Willa Cather's metalinguistic, ethnic discourses -- Coda : beyond the binary?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Animal farm / George Orwell -- Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Cry, the beloved coutry / Alan Paton -- Democracy / Joan Didion -- Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons -- The giver / Lois Lowry -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Obasan / Joy Kogawa -- A passage to India / E.M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Vol. 13: Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- The darling / Anton Chekhov -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin -- Dominoes / Jack Agueros -- Errand / Raymond Carver -- The first seven years / Bernard Malamud -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Jeffty is five / Harlan Ellison -- Life / Bessie Head -- Little miracles, kept promises / Sandra Cisneros -- My life with the wave / Octavio Paz -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- Stones in my passway, hellhound on my trail / T. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Salinger -- A point at issue! / Kate Chopin.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Wilkins -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding / Pauline E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The revolt of "Mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A respectable woman / Kate Chopin -- The guests of Mrs. Timms / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A day's pleasure / Hamlin Garland -- Souls belated / Edith Wharton -- The new woman and the old / Anne Warner -- The second choice / Theodore Dreiser -- Mother / Sherwood Anderson -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- A night in June / William Carlos Williams -- Sex education / Dorothy Canfield -- The ram in the thicket / Wright Morris -- Barrow Street / Richard Sherman -- Blue Island / J.F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Heart of darkness: the agon of the femme fatale -- Home rule: the colonies of the new woman -- The second coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin's fantasy of desire -- II. Feminization and its discontents. …”

Table of Contents: “…American women writers and the periodical: creating a constituency, opening a dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic / Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering gilded age periodical professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and home prescriptions for women's writing / Sarah Robbins -- Parental guidance: disciplinary intimacy and the rise of women's regionalism / Janet Gebhart Auten -- Kate Chopin and the periodical revisiting the re-vision / Bonnie James Shaker -- The heroine of her own story: subversion of traditional periodical marriage tropes in the short fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilms's Forerunner / Aleta Reinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, the Little magazine impulse in modern America / Craig Monk -- "An ardor that was human, and a power that was art": Rebecca Harding Davis and the art of the periodical / Michele L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ADVOCACY -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the -- Nineteenth-Century Body Politic 23 -- Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: -- Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home -- Prescriptions for Women's Writing 45 -- Sarah Robbins -- Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the -- Rise of Women's Regionalism 66 -- Janet GebhartAuten -- Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision 78 -- Bonnie James Shaker --GENDER ROLES, SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS, AND THE WOMAN WRITER -- The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional -- Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte -- Perkins Gilman's Forerunner 95 -- Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the -- Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America 113 -- Craig Monk -- "An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art": -- Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical 126 -- Michele L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Maya Angelou -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Louise Bogan -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Willa Cather -- Kate Chopin -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Hilda Doolittle -- Jessie Fauset -- Mary E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer -- A worn path / Eudora Welty.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- "Mark Twain: "The Californian's Tale" -- Ambrose Bierce: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" -- Sarah Orne Jewett: "A White Heron" -- Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" -- Arthur Conan Doyle: "A Scandal in Bohemia" -- Anton Chekhov: "The Lady with the Dog" -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- Edith Wharton: "The Choice" -- O. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Apple and Joanne Passet -- Kate Chopin and the birth of your adult fiction / Bonnie James Shaker -- Reading Nancy Drew in urban India: gender, postcolonialism, and memories of home / Radhika Parameswaran.…”

Table of Contents: “…Singley -- Un-utterable longing : the discourse of feminine sexuality in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- The fatherlode : Ellen Glasgow's religious inheritance / Susan Goodman -- Apocalypse now and the New England Way / Milton J. …”

Table of Contents: “…(Phedre) / Johan Callens -- Outside the law: feminist adaptations of The scarlet letter / Lenora Champagne -- Expressions of "lust and rage": shared experience theatre's adaptation of Jane Eyre / Kristin Crouch -- A mystical place called Grand Isle: adapting Kate Chopin's The awakening / Chiori Miyagawa -- SITI Company's Room: theatrical performance and/as feminist invitational rhetoric / Sandee K. …”

Table of Contents: “…Harper -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Louisa May Alcott -- Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Sarah Piatt -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Emma Lazarus -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) -- Kate Chopin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Grace King -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Edith Wharton -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) -- Mary Austin -- Willa Cather -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Zitkal-Ša -- Susan Glaspell -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Anne Spencer -- Elinor Wylie -- Anzia Yerzierska -- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) -- Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edna St. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Josiah / Marietta Holley -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Freedom / Nella Larsen -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- O yes / Tillie Olsen -- A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates -- Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- May's lion / Ursula K. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Story and his writers -- Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks -- Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- Cathedral; Errand; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Carter -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's baby; Story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz -- Mrs. …”

Table of Contents: “…Harper -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Louisa May Alcott -- Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Sarah Piatt -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Emma Lazarus -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) -- Kate Chopin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Grace King -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Edith Wharton -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) -- Mary Austin -- Willa Cather -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Zitkal-Ša -- Susan Glaspell -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Anne Spencer -- Elinor Wylie -- Anzia Yerzierska -- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) -- Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edna St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cleary -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Victoria Earle Matthews -- Sarah Piatt -- Kate Chopin -- Pauline Hopkins -- Priscilla Jane Thompson -- Zitkala-Ša -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) -- Grace King.…”

Table of Contents: “…Mackethan -- Varieties of local color / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Kate Chopin / Anne Rowe -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) / Louis D. …”

Table of Contents: “…Theodore (Elizabeth) Tilton -- Mariana Andrada -- Kate Chopin -- Olivia Langdon Clemens -- Louise Clappe (Dame Shirley) -- Ida Saxton McKinley -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Neighbor woman, name unknown -- Cora (Mrs. …”

Table of Contents: “…Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Industrialization and women's work -- The working girls of Boston -- Speak-out on domestic service -- The sweating system, charity, and organization / Ida Van Etten -- Testimony on compensation for educated women at work -- Unionization for women: the typographical union / Belva Mary Herron -- On The black woman as breadwinner / Mary White Ovington -- Legacy of leisure: discontent -- On Marriage and work / Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- The snare of preparation / Jane Addams -- "The story of an hour" / Kate Chopin -- On Women's evolution from economic dependence / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.…”

Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Alex Haley and Malcolm X -- The awakening / Kate Chopin -- Blacks / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bury my heart at wounded knee: an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown -- Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The color purple / Alice Walker -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- "Everything that rises must converge" / Flannery O'Connor -- Farewell to Manzanar / James D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Freibert -- Lydia Maria Child / Hildegard Hoeller -- Kate Chopin / Victoria Boynton -- Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) / Samantha Manchester Earley -- Rose Terry Cooke / Gail C. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cassill -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Andrea Barrett on "Paul's case" -- The enormous radio / John Cheever -- The lady with the dog ; Gusev / Anton Chekhov -- Richard Bausch on "Gusev" -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Barry Hannah on "Heart of darkness" -- The babysitter / Robert Coover -- A continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Allan Gurganus on "The open boat" -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Open winter / H.L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cluster : literacy, literature, and democracy in Postbellum America -- Learning to read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) -- How to write a letter / Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Criticism and fiction -- Editor's easy chair / William Dean Howells (1837-1920) -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Notice and explanatory / Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) -- The Western Association of Writers / Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Review of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the pointed firs / Alice Brown (1857-1948) -- Preface to Contending forces / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Journal / Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Mr. …”

Table of Contents: “…Blurring Form: Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Marilynne Robinson, Janet Lewis, Kate Chopin, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding, Mary Butts -- 29. …”

Table of Contents: “…Cordelia Ray 1849-1916 -- Kate Chopin 1851-1904 -- Mary Noailles Murfree 1850-1922 -- Octave Thanet (Alice French) 1850-1934 -- Mary E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Loring -- The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- The awakening / Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Old woman magoun / Mary E. …”