Written in the late Victorian era, The Awakening features a young
woman who flings aside the norms of society and rejects her role as
wife and mother. She abandons her family for a hedonistic and
contrarian lifestyle before eventually committing suicide. The
novel deals with the issues of interracial marriage and contains
passages of overt sexuality, both of which contributed to the
widespread outcry upon its original publication in 1899. Today it
is seen as a portent of the future and admired for its direct and
naturalistic style. Flame Tree 451 presents a new series, The
Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet
revolution in literature previously dominated by male adventure
heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze
to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female
protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on
any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new biography
and a glossary of literary terms.
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