Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival Contributor(s): Koloski, Bernard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807143669 ISBN-13: 9780807143667 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 813.4 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 238 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But Chopin has not always been featured in the literary curriculum. Though she achieved national success in her lifetime (1850--1904) as a writer of Louisiana local color fiction, after her death her work fell into obscurity until 1969, when Norwegian literary scholar Per Seyersted published The Complete Works of Kate Chopin and sparked a remarkable American literary revival. Chopin soon became a major presence in the canon, and today every college textbook surveying American literature contains a Chopin short story, her novel The Awakening, or an excerpt from it. |