{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-kate-chopin-paperback-9780521709828","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (Paperback) 9780521709828","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of essays for students covering Chopin's fiction, context, influences, and the American and transatlantic aspects of her work.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanet Beer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521709828, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 18 September 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a rich and comprehensive volume. The ten essays include helpful overviews, like those of veteran Chopin scholars Bernard Koloski and Emily Toth and Janet Beer's lively prologue. While these essays track mostly familiar territory, they also provide nuanced critical introductions to the many new readers who continue to be charmed by Chopin's fictions. But these essays also open new terrain in Chopin studies … good stories, literary craft, and social consciousness - ought to guarantee Kate Chopin at least another century or two of readers and critics. And Janet Beer's fine collection of essays indicates just how interesting the reading will continue to be.' American Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough 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' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Janet Beer\u003cbr\u003e 1. What we do and don't know about Kate Chopin's life Emily Toth\u003cbr\u003e 2. At Fault: a reappraisal of Kate Chopin's other novel Donna Campbell\u003cbr\u003e 3. Kate Chopin and the subject of childhood Pamela Knights\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Race' and ethnicity in Kate Chopin's fiction Susan Castillo\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kate Chopin on fashion in a Darwinian world Katherine Joslin\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Awakening and New Woman fiction Ann Heilmann\u003cbr\u003e 7. Reading Kate Chopin through contemporary French feminist theory Michael Worton\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Awakening as literary innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the evolution of genre Elizabeth Nolan\u003cbr\u003e 9. Kate Chopin, choice and modernism Avril Horner\u003cbr\u003e 10. Kate Chopin and post-colonial New Orleans Helen Taylor\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Awakening: the first hundred years Bernard Koloski\u003cbr\u003e Guide to further reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004499874072,"sku":"9780521709828","price":22.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521709828i_ca67ece0-ebd9-4454-8dd6-06108dd82815.jpg?v=1691380270","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-kate-chopin-paperback-9780521709828","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}