Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Essays
- ISBN-10
- 1527563731
- ISBN-13
- 9781527563735
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-12-15
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Author
- Heather Ostman
Description
The essays in Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century update Chopin scholarship, creating pathways, both broad and narrow, for study in a new century. Given Chopin’s atypical literary career and her frequent writing about unconventional themes for her time—such as divorce, infidelity, and suicide—she may have approved such approaches as the essays here suggest. This collection of essays offers readers newer ways of thinking about Chopin’s works. They break away from the familiar trends of the feminist considerations of her work, ranging from her short stories, to her lesser-known novel, At Fault, to her best-known work, The Awakening. Part one introduces interdisciplinary themes for reading “culture” in Chopin, including urban living and theatre as a lens for viewing New Orleans’s social and class stratifications; the importance of music—a central interest of Chopin’s—in her texts; and the cultural relevance of Vogue magazine, where eighteen of Chopin’s stories were first published. Part two identifies important and overlapping concerns of religion, race, class, and gender within the contexts of selected short works. And part three offers fresh readings of The Awakening, using the lens of race, as well as the lens of class to reconsider protagonist Edna Pontellier’s transformation and her dependency upon the “rights” of privilege within a specific cultural context. Together, all of the essays in the collection, by both established and newer scholars, help to usher Chopin’s work into the twenty-first century.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2008
- - pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Similar books
-
Kate Chopin and the City: The New Orleans Stories
By Heather OstmanThis book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans.
-
Kate Chopin and Catholicism
By Heather OstmanEmily Toth comments in a note within Chopin's published private papers how her Commonplace Book shows the ways her Catholic education complemented her informal education by her greatgrandmother, particularly because “Sacred Heart ...
-
The Awakening and Other Stories
By Kate ChopinAlso included in this volume are several of Chopin’s short stories, including “Désirée’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour.”
-
Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches
By Kate O’Donoghue, Heather OstmanNew Approaches Kate O'Donoghue, Heather Ostman ... Isn't it death then, the Gothic memento mori, who hides behind every single life experience Gothically turned into literature by Kate Chopin in her works? ... A Kate Chopin Miscellany.
-
The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
By Kate ChopinIn 1969, Per Seyersted gave the world the first collected works of Kate Chopin.
-
Kate Chopin and the City: The New Orleans Stories
By Heather OstmanThis book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans.
-
The Self-Inflicted Crisis of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening"
By Sabine StrebelSeminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English & Linguistics), language: English, abstract: In 21st-century ...
-
Gale Researcher Guide for: Kate Chopin
By Kate O'DonoghueThese study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
-
Essential Novelists - Kate Chopin: Awakening of the Women
By Kate Chopin, August NemoNovels selected for this book: - The Awakening - At Fault This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
-
At Fault
By Kate ChopinWith a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Kate Chopin’s At Fault is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.