Overview
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.
- | Author: N. Walker
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 170 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 033373789X
- | ISBN-13: 9780333737897
