Kate Chopin

A Literary Life

von N. Walker

170 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 (1899), 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 twentieth century. 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 writer.

• Reihe: Literary Lives
• ISBN: 9780333737880
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2001
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK