Kate Chopin has emerged as one of the most significant American writers of the nineteenth century. Though her works typically reflect the language and customs of the Louisiana of her memories, they also make universal comments about women, men, and human relationships. Best known as the author of "The Awakening" (1899), she also wrote nearly a hundred short stories, essays, poems, reviews, and a play. While the contemporary response to her works was sometimes negative, much recent critical debate concerns her lasting place in the American literary canon, with some scholars placing "The...
Kate Chopin has emerged as one of the most significant American writers of the nineteenth century. Though her works typically reflect the language ...
Celebrated for her depictions of life among Louisiana s Creole and Cajun peoples, Kate Chopin (1850 1904) is today seen as a major figure in southern literature. Her short stories and her last novel, The Awakening (1899), are widely read and studied. Unjustly neglected, however, is her first novel, At Fault, which Chopin published in 1890 at her own expense. This edition of At Fault the first printing to appear since Chopin s Complete Works was issued in 1969 now makes the book available to a wide audience. The novel centers on Therese Lafirme, a widow who owns and runs a plantation in...
Celebrated for her depictions of life among Louisiana s Creole and Cajun peoples, Kate Chopin (1850 1904) is today seen as a major figure in southern ...
