Name: Kate Chopin
ISBN: 978-0-333-73788-0

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N. Walker

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Keywords

20th century
America
chronology
English literature
Frederic Chopin
literature
twentieth century
women

About this book

In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well-known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, The Awakening (1899), told the daring story of a woman who defied social and sexual conventions, eliciting negative reviews that denied Chopin prominence until the middle of the twentieth century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of nineteenth-century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.

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NANCY WALKER is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Book Title: Kate Chopin
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: N. Walker
Series Title: Literary Lives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73788-0Published: 20 June 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73789-7Published: 13 June 2001
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 170

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