Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 What we do and don’t know about Kate Chopin’s life
- 2 At Fault: a reappraisal of Kate Chopin’s other novel
- 3 Kate Chopin and the subject of childhood
- 4 ‘Race’ and ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s fiction
- 5 Kate Chopin on fashion in a Darwinian world
- 6 The Awakening and New Woman fiction
- 7 Reading Kate Chopin through contemporary French feminist theory
- 8 The Awakening as literary innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the evolution of genre
- 9 Kate Chopin, choice and modernism
- 10 ‘The perfume of the past’: Kate Chopin and post-colonial New Orleans
- 11 The Awakening: the first years
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 What we do and don’t know about Kate Chopin’s life
- 2 At Fault: a reappraisal of Kate Chopin’s other novel
- 3 Kate Chopin and the subject of childhood
- 4 ‘Race’ and ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s fiction
- 5 Kate Chopin on fashion in a Darwinian world
- 6 The Awakening and New Woman fiction
- 7 Reading Kate Chopin through contemporary French feminist theory
- 8 The Awakening as literary innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the evolution of genre
- 9 Kate Chopin, choice and modernism
- 10 ‘The perfume of the past’: Kate Chopin and post-colonial New Orleans
- 11 The Awakening: the first years
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Summary
Kate Chopin's novels and stories are available in various reprints and editions; those referred to by essayists are included in the Primary texts below. Throughout the volume the textual references are all to The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, edited by Per Seyersted. Full bibliographical references to articles, books and other texts are included in the endnotes to each essay. The Selected Critical and Biographical Studies below are to be considered as the starting point to any study of Chopin's life and works.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin , pp. 174 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008