美国女作家凯特·肖邦1899年出版的小说《觉醒》直到20世纪60年代,它才随着美国文学经典修正和重读的浪潮重新进入批评家和读者的视野。究其原因,除了其女性主义特色,小说所包含的印象派绘画元素和音乐元素也功不可没。诚如美国女性主义批评创始人之一伊莱恩·肖沃尔特所评价 It was not until the 1960s that American writer Kate Chopin’s novel Awakening, published in 1899, re-entered critics and readers’ eyes as the tide of revision and re-reading of American literary classics. The reason, in addition to its feminist features, implied in the novel Impressionist elements of painting and music are also contributed. As evaluated by Elaine Shovalt, one of the founders of American feminist criticism