Kate Chopin A Literary Life Walker Nancy A 1942 by Walker, Nancy A., 1942- instant download after payment.

ix, 170 pages ; 23 cm, 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 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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163) and index, The context of a literary life -- St. Louis to Louisiana and back -- The early stories and At fault -- 'Local color' literature and A night in Acadie -- The awakening and the limits of propriety -- 1900-1904, 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 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