Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou

In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives--biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist--with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening.

" A worthwhile collection of essays offering usefully eclectic critical perspectives of Chopin and her work."--Mississippi Quarterly

Author: Lynda S. Boren
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.02w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780807124352

About the Author

Lynda S. Boren teaches gifted high-school students in Leesville, Louisiana, and is the author of Eurydice Reclaimed: Language, Gender, and Voice in Henry James

Sara deSaussure Davis, associate professor of American literature and chair of the department of English at the University of Alabama, is coeditor of The Mythologizing of Mark Twain.