Kate Chopin: A Literary Life

by N. Walker

Overview

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 twentieth century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of nineteenth-century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333737880
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/20/2001
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

NANCY WALKER is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Chronology of Chopin's Life 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 Further Reading Index

Editorial Reviews

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