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Kate Chopin: A Literary Life

Nancy A. Walker

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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 , 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 20th Century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of 19th Century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.

Language: English

Pages: 182

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: September 08, 2001

ISBN: 0333737881

ISBN 13: 9780333737880

Kate Chopin: A Literary Life

Nancy A. Walker

2/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 20th Century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of 19th Century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.

Language: English

Pages: 182

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: September 08, 2001

ISBN: 0333737881

ISBN 13: 9780333737880

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