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Kate Chopin
This candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry when it was published in 1899. It is the story…
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To all outside appearances, Edna Pontellier is a respectable married woman, but one lazy summer vacation and an apparently harmless infatuation will push Edna beyond this quiet, settled life, placing…
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Contains Chopin’s watershed novel and selected stories. This book has been edited by Nina Baym and includes an introduction by Kaye Gibbons.
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This collection brings a fresh, international lens to Chopin studies. The essays reflect on the experience of studying and teaching Chopin in countries outside of the United States, as well…
Rosary O'Neill Phd, Rory O'Neill Schmitt Phd
Authors Rory O'Neill Schmitt and Rosary O'Neill share the NOLA life of Kate Chopin, the first great American woman novelist. In this epic story, Chopin becomes a Phoenix rising amidst…
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The Awakening is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. This landmark novel was one of the earliest works of feminism…
Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Selected Short Stories explores the complexities of womanhood and societal expectations in 19th-century America. Through poignant prose and vivid storytelling, Chopin delves into themes of…
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Peggy Skaggs
Offers a critical introduction to the life and work of the American novelist.
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Harold Bloom
Initially known for her short stories and articles, Kate Chopin was considered to be little more than a regional writer. Published in 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, received little…
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Emily Toth
This is the true, unvarnished life story of the girl who grew up to write The Awakening, a masterpiece published 100 years ago. With its portrayal of a woman whose…
Heather Ostman
This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate
Chopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through…
Presents The Awakening and seventeen short stories, including A Shameful Affair, At the ‘Cadian Ball, and Madame Celestin’s Divorce .
These Pocket Books Enriched Classics editions feature concise Introductions that give important background information; a chronology of the author’s life and career; a timeline of significant events that provide the…
Presents an edition of the primarily unpublished papers of author Kate Chopin, including notebooks and diaries, letters, poems, manuscript account books, and miscellaneous documents, statements, music, and illustrations. This book…
Kate Chopin,Edmund Wilson
Containing twenty poems, ninety-six stories, two novels, and thirteen essays, in short, everything Kate Chopin wrote except several additional poems and three unfinished children’s stories, as well as Per Seyersted’s…
Alice Hall Petry
Covers the works of novelist and short story writer Kate Chopin (1850–1904).
In 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin. Seyersted’s presentation of Chopin’s writings and biographical and bibliographical information led to the rediscovery and celebration…
N. Walker
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…
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…
Per Seyersted
Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local colour school when she in 1899 shocked the American reading public with The Awakening. This volume provides an…
Chopin
11 stories by Kate Chopin: The Awakening; Beyond the Bayou; Ma'ame Pelagie; Desiree’s Baby; A Respectable Woman; The Kiss A Pair of Silk Stockings; The Locket; A Reflection; At the…
This short book was released in 1899. Because of the scandal it created, it was outlawed for many years. Kate Chopin was so outraged by the backlash to this work…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Although Kate Chopin lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for most of her life, the few years that she spent in Louisiana profoundly influenced her writing career, which lasted from about…
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century. The plot centers on Edna…
Edna struggles with her role as a housewife, and yearns for social freedom. Her unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood fuel her desires and passion, despite the prevailing social attitudes…
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was the first American woman to deal with women’s roles as wives and mothers. This book, her most famous novel, concerns a woman dissatisfied with her indifferent…
In this early example of feminist writing, Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, rejects the strict societal confines for women in late 1800s America and expresses a rare and…
The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier's journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that…
Short fiction by much-more-than-local-color-writer Kate Chopin. Includes Ma'ame Pelagie, a character who shows up again later.
