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Awakenings : the story of the Kate Chopin Revival

edited by Bernard Koloski.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
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 remarkabl

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Format:
book Book
Subject:
Chopin, Kate, > 1850-1904 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chopin, Kate, > 1850-1904. > Awakening.
Chopin, Kate, > 1850-1904 > Appreciation.
Publication Year:
2009
Language:
English
Published:
Baton Rouge
ISBN:
9780807143667
Course:
ENG184
Women’s Writing & Feminist Readings
Series:
Southern literary studies.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

 

 


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