| Description |
xiii, 257 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on American literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contemporary reviews. At fault : A St. Louis novelist / St. Louis Post-Dispatch ; [From "Recent fiction"] / The Nation -- Bayou folk : Bayou folk / The Critic ; [From "The new books"] / New Orleans Daily Picayune ; [From "Literary notices. Recent fiction"] / Hartford Daily Courant ; [From "The new books"] / Review of Reviews ; [From "Book reviews"] / Public Opinion -- A night in Acadie : [From "Among the new books"] / St. Louis Post-Dispatch ; [From "More novels"] / The Nation ; Mrs. Chopin's "Night in Acadie" / "J. L. G." [Jeannette L. Gilder for The critic ; [Review of A night in Acadie] / New Orleans Daily Picayune -- The awakening : [From Recent novels"] / The Nation ; [From "Books of the week"] / Providence Sunday Journal -- [From "The newest books"] / C[harles] L. Deyo for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ; From "100 books for summer" / New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art -- [From "Book reviews"] / Public Opinion -- Biographical sketch (1894). "Kate Chopin" / William Schuyler for The writer -- Criticism before 1969. [From Their day in court] / Percival Pollard ; Stories by Kate Chopin / Joseph J. Reilly ; A forgotten novel : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Kenneth Eble. |
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Criticism after 1969. The awakening : a political romance / Lawrence Thornton -- Kate Chopin's quarrel with Darwin before The awakening ; The teeth of desire : The awakening and The descent of man / Bert Bender -- The boy's quest in Kate Chopin's "A vocation and a voice" / Peggy Skaggs -- The restive brute : the sympolic presentation of repression and sublimation in Kate Chopin's "Fedora" / Joyce [Coyne] Dyer -- Pride and prejudice : Kate Chopin's "Desiree's baby" / Robert D. Arner -- Narrative stance in Kate Chopin's The awakening / Ruth Sullivan and Stewart Smith -- Armand Aubigny, still passing after all these years : the narrative voice and historical context of "Desiree's baby" / Margaret D. Bauer -- "Acting like fools" : the ill-fated romances of "At the 'Cadian ball" and "The storm" / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Kate Chopin's fascination with young men / Linda Wagner-Martin -- "The house of Sylvie" in Kate Chopin's "Athenaise" / Heather Kirk Thomas -- Her own story : the woman of letters in Kate Chopin's short fiction / Nancy A. Walker -- Picture perfect : painting in The awakening / Kathryn Lee Seidel -- Land's end : The awakening and 19th-century literary tradition / Priscilla Leder. |
| Subject |
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
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Louisiana -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Petry, Alice Hall, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0783800320 |
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