Kate Chopin in Context

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches

   1. Introduction: Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches

      • Heather Ostman, Kate O’Donoghue

      Pages 1-11

3. New Contextual Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Chopin’s Enlightened Men

      • Bernard Koloski

      Pages 15-27

   3. Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism

      • Rafael Walker

      Pages 29-46

   4. “A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her”: The Legal Climate at the Time of “Désirée’s Baby”

      • Amy Branam Armiento

      Pages 47-64

   5. The Gothic in Kate Chopin

      • Aparecido Donizete Rossi

      Pages 65-82

   6. The Pleasures of Music: Kate Chopin’s Artistic and Sensorial Synesthesia

      • Eulalia Piñero Gil

      Pages 83-100

   7. Maternity vs. Autonomy in Chopin’s “Regret”

      • Heather Ostman

      Pages 101-115

4. New Pedagogical Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. The “I Hate Edna Club”

      • Emily Toth

      Pages 119-122

   3. Pioneering Kate Chopin’s Feminism: Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons as Patchwork Precursor to The Awakening

      • Diana Epelbaum

      Pages 123-143

   4. “I’m So Happy; It Frightens Me”: Female Genealogy in the Fiction of Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins

      • Correna Catlett Merricks

      Pages 145-158

   5. American Refusals: A Continuum of “I Prefer Not Tos” as Articulated in the Work of Chopin, Hawthorne, Harper, Atherton, and Dreiser

      • Patricia J. Sehulster

      Pages 159-172

   6. What Did She Die of? “The Story of an Hour” in the Middle East Classroom

      • Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Geetha Rajeswar

      Pages 173-185

   7. Teaching Kate Chopin Using Multimedia

      • Kate O’Donoghue

      Pages 187-202

5. Back Matter

   Pages 203-216

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Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakening . Expanding the horizons of Chopin's influence, contributors offer readers glimpses into the multi-national appreciation and versatility of the author's works, including within the classroom setting.

• autonomy
• climate
• concept
• Dreiser
• essay
• feminism
• fiction
• genealogy
• gothic
• growth
• individual
• media
• Middle East
• music
• time

“In this comprehensive collection, Ostman and O’Donoghue have done a heroic job in selecting essays that widen the lens beyond the customary examination of Chopin’s magnum opus, The Awakening. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” (D. D. Knight, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

“Kate Chopin in Context belongs in every college library. The essays are well researched, cognizant of prior commentary and research while refreshing, original, and provocative. They appeal to the specialist; they are accessible to students.” (Lloyd M. Daigrepont, Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, 2016) 

Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State University, USA Diana Epelbaum, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Bernard Koloski, Independent Scholar, USA Correna Catlett Merricks, Mercer University, USA Eulalia Piñero Gil, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Independent Scholar, USA Geetha Rajeswar, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Aparecido Donizete Rossi, São Paulo State University, Brazil Patricia Sehulster, Westchester Community College, SUNY, USA Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, USA Rafael Walker, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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