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- Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
summary
In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives—biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist—with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- I: Biographical Approaches
- II: Daring and Defying
- The Awakening of Female Artistry
- pp. 61-79
- The Quintessence of Chopinism
- pp. 95-114
- III: Earning the Right
- The Awakening: The Economics of Tension
- pp. 143-154
- IV: Reawakenings and Romantic Self-Deceptions
- Kate Chopin and the Dream of Female Selfhood
- pp. 157-165
- V: The Lesser-Known Fiction
- Chopin's Movement Toward Universal Myth
- pp. 199-206
- Kate Chopin's "Charlie"
- pp. 207-215
- Bibliography
- pp. 231-238
- Contributors
- pp. 239-242
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807166482
MARC Record
OCLC
966821707
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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