Kate Chopin - A Literary Life

Zusatztext '...enthusiastically recommended...' - Choice Informationen zum Autor NANCY WALKER is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Bericht

'...enthusiastically recommended...' - Choice

Produktdetails

• Autoren: N Walker, N. Walker, Nancy A. Walker, WALKER NANCY A
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.06.2001
• EAN: 9780333737897
• ISBN: 978-0-333-73789-7
• Seiten: 170
• Serien: Literary Lives; Literary Lives (Hardcover); Literary Lives; Literary Lives (Hardcover)
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature