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
Series List
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
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- The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin , pp. 185 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008