The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

Informationen zum Autor Professor Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. A collection of essays for students covering Chopin's fiction, context, influences, and the American and transatlantic aspects of her work. Although little known during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature, with her seminal novel, The Awakening (1899), now widely read and studied. This volume, aimed at students and scholars of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature, brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Janet Beer; 1. What we do and don't know about Kate Chopin's life Emily Toth; 2. At Fault: a reappraisal of Kate Chopin's other novel Donna Campbell; 3. Kate Chopin and the subject of childhood Pamela Knights; 4. 'Race' and ethnicity in Kate Chopin's fiction Susan Castillo; 5. Kate Chopin on fashion in a Darwinian world Katherine Joslin; 6. The Awakening and New Woman fiction Ann Heilmann; 7. Reading Kate Chopin through contemporary French feminist theory Michael Worton; 8. The Awakening as literary innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the evolution of genre Elizabeth Nolan; 9. Kate Chopin, choice and modernism Avril Horner; 10. Kate Chopin and post-colonial New Orleans Helen Taylor; 11. The Awakening: the first hundred years Bernard Koloski; Guide to further reading; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Janet Beer
• Con la collaborazione di: Janet Beer (Editore), Beer Janet (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521709828
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70982-8
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers