\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century.\u003c/b\u003e This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism and a precursor to American modernism and the great southern novelists such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. \u003c/p\u003e \u003cbr/\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdna Pontellier struggles to reconcile her views of femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. An important and powerful look into the beginnings of modern feminism literature.\u003c/p\u003e
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