Kate Chopin: A Literary Life

by Nancy A. Walker

Book Overview

Kate Chopin, known in her lifetime as a writer of stories set in the French-settled regions of Louisiana and today as the author of THE AWAKENING, has been viewed as a woman who, until she wrote her final novel, catered to the taste for regional fiction and led a conventional domestic life. In this study, Nancy A. Walker demonstrates that Chopin was an astute literary professional who consciously crafted an acceptable public identity while she pursued...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333737881
• ISBN13: 9780333737880
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"