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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her "foreignness"...
3) Kate Chopin
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 485
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
"The author 'provides careful analyses of Chopin's two volumes of published short stories ("Bayou Folks" and "A Night in Arcadie"), the stories of her unpublished short volume, "A Vocation and a Voice," her uncollected short stores, poems, and essays, as well as her two novels, "At Fault" and "The Awakening." A thorough critical study of interest to both general readers and scholars.'" Booklist.
4) Kate Chopin
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Chopin and her works arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days; Grace King's Balcony Stories;...