Kate Chopin: A Literary Life

By Nancy A. Walker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333737881
• ISBN13: 9780333737880
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"