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Kate Chopin

by Walker, Nancy A.
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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 20th Century. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life sets the author in the context of 19th Century American women writers to show how standards of literary propriety affected the career of a major American writer.

About the Author, Nancy A. Walker

Nancy A. Walker is Professor of English, Vanderbilt University.

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Book Details

Published
June 8, 2026
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave, 2001.
Pages
170
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780333737897

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