The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Kate Chopin [144]
Walker, Nancy. The Awakening: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Second edition. New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2000.
Works Cited in the Introduction: Reviews of The Awakening
“The Awakening.” The Nation 69 (August 3, 1899), p. 96.
Deyo, Charles L. Review of The Awakening. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 20, 1899), p. 4.
Review of The Awakening from “100 Books for Summer.” New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (June 24, 1899), p. 408.
Review of The Awakening. Public Opinion 26 (June 22, 1899), p. 794.
“Mrs. Chopin’s ‘Night in Acadie.”’ The Critic 29 (April 16, 1898), p. 266.
“A Night in Acadie.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (December 11, 1897), p. 4.
1
Go away! Go away! For God’s sake! (French [henceforth, Fr.]).
2
An island located in southeastern Louisiana, about 50 miles south of New Orleans, between the Gulf of Mexico and Caminada Bay. In the early 19th century it was the head-quarters of pirate Jean Lafitte’s smuggling operations.
3
A romantic opera about love and betrayal by the French composer Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833); it was first performed in 1831.
4
A popular vacation resort located on the Louisiana coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
5
A small sailboat.
6
A person with one-quarter black ancestry.
7
Delicate fabric of cotton or linen.
8
A musical composition by the Austrian Franz Suppé (1819-1895), known as a composer of operettas.
9
commercial institution involving finance or trading.
10
The French Quarter (Fr.), the oldest part of New Orleans, settled in the 1700s.
11
Robe (Fr.).
12
Slippers (Fr.).
13
A light, low, four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage.
14
The financial and commercial center of New Orleans. Chopin’s husband, Oscar, who worked as a cotton broker, moved his office to this prime location.
15
Delicacies (Fr.).
16
Filled pastries (Fr.).
17
Nougat; a chewy candy traditionally flavored with pistachios or almonds.
18
French-speaking descendants of the early French settlers in Louisiana.
19
Childbirths (Fr.).
20
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), a French novelist whom Chopin admired.
21
For goodness’ sake! (Fr.).
22
Go on! Good-bye! Go awayl (Fr.).
23
Joker-comedian-silly, come off it! (Fr.).
24
Not bad at all! Not bad at all! She knows what she’s doing, she has talent (Fr.).
25
Dressed.
26
Coarse linen fabric.
27
A triangular sail.
28
A peninsula near where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
29
My dear (Fr.).
30
Poor dear (Fr.).
31
Either a parish near Baton Rouge at the border between Louisiana and Mississippi, or a village with the same name.
32
So Madame Ratignolle is jealous! (Fr.).
33
Joker (Fr.).
34
For heaven’s sake! (Fr.).
35
Good-bye, until later (Fr.).
36
A hot drink consisting of liquor (such as rum), water, sugar, and spices.
37
A rum-based liquor from Trinidad.
38
High-quality French porcelain.
39
A nice fellow (Fr.).
40
The reference is to a book by the French brothers and literary collaborators Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) Goncourt, who wrote social histories, art criticism, and novels in the style of literary naturalism.
41
An impulsive character (Fr.).
42
A dress made from rich fabric with a high neckline and waist beginning just below the bosom.
43
An island adjacent to Grand Isle.
44
Located near Grand Isle, a small settlement for shrimping and fishing constructed on platforms raised above the water by stilts.
45
Canoe; widely used for fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
46
A descendant of French Canadians whom the British, in the 18th century, drove from the captured French colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) and who settled in the bayou lands of southern Louisiana.
47
A type of fish.
48
Rice powder; for dusting the face and chest (Fr.).
49
Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre, who between 1810 and 1814 organized a colony of pirates and smugglers around the coast of Barataria Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.