Kate Chopin : a literary life / Nancy A. Walker.

9780333737897 (pbk.)
033373789X (pbk.)
9780333737880
0333737881

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

English

ix, 170 p. ; 22 cm.

PS1294.C63 Z94 2001

813/.4 B

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163) and index.

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