The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

Book Overview

Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521709822
• ISBN13: 9780521709828
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"