Kate Chopin : a literary life / Nancy A. Walker.
2001
PS1294.C63 Z94 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Kate Chopin : a literary life / Nancy A. Walker.
Author
Walker, Nancy A., 1942-
ISBN
9780333737897 (pbk.)
033373789X (pbk.)
9780333737880
0333737881
033373789X (pbk.)
9780333737880
0333737881
Imprint
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Language
English
Description
ix, 170 p. ; 22 cm.
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PS1294.C63 Z94 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.4 B
Summary
In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well-known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, The Awakening (1899), told the daring story of a woman who defied social and sexual conventions, eliciting negative reviews that denied Chopin prominence until the middle of the 20th Century. Kate Chopin: a literary life sets the author in the context of 19th Century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163) and index.
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Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
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The context of a literary life
St. Louis to Louisiana and back
The early stories and At fault
'Local color' literature and A night in Acadie
The awakening and the limits of propriety
1900-1904.
St. Louis to Louisiana and back
The early stories and At fault
'Local color' literature and A night in Acadie
The awakening and the limits of propriety
1900-1904.