Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou

by Sara DeSaussure Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124354
• ISBN13: 9780807124352
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"