Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival

by Bernard Koloski

Book Overview

One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But Chopin has not always been featured in the literary curriculum. Though she achieved national success in her lifetime (1850--1904) as a writer of Louisiana "local color" fiction, after her death her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807143669
• ISBN13: 9780807143667
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"