The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin（ISBN=9780521709828）
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime,Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in Americanliterature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899,explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with itsfrank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin'saesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both theEuropean and American traditions, and her manipulation of her'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voicethat was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. Theessays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories andnovels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres andliterary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlanticdimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings afresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal toresearchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, andfeminist literature. ? Covers all of Chopin's oeuvre in its
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