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

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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

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

Product details

• Authors: N Walker, N. Walker, Nancy A. Walker
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2001
• EAN: 9780333737880
• ISBN: 978-0-333-73788-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Literary Lives; Literary Lives (Hardcover); Literary Lives; Literary Lives (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; 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