Kate Chopin Reconsidered
Subtitle: Beyond the Bayou (Southern Literary Studies)
Contributors: Lynda S. Boren (Editor); Sara Desaussure Davis (Editor)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: May 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807117217
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Women and literature; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Chopin, Kate; Southern States; 1851-1904; 19th century; 20th century; Chopin, Kate,; Feminism and literature; History
First sentence: Until fairly recently, scholars have shied away from a preoccupation with the motives and strategies that inform Kate Chopin's art; her day-to-day struggles and obsessions seemed peripheral, somehow nonrelevant.