function of adultery, contract and female identity in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: In Kate Chopin''s The Awakening, sexuality, love and marriage are negotiated in connection with the problem of a uniquely female identity which defies the ideas of Victorian prudery and seeks to represent the "new woman". But what precisely is the nature of...