02995nam 22005775 450 991077026430332120250807135603.09783031443008(electronic bk.)978303144299510.1007/978-3-031-44300-8(MiAaPQ)EBC31021829(Au-PeEL)EBL31021829(DE-He213)978-3-031-44300-8(CKB)29403451100041(EXLCZ)992940345110004120231215d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKate Chopin and the City The New Orleans Stories /by Heather Ostman1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (183 pages)American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,2634-5803Includes index.Print version: Ostman, Heather Kate Chopin and the City Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031442995 Introduction -- 1 Post-Civil War Stories -- 2 Art, Music, and Language -- 3 Postbellum Transitions -- 4 The “Protomodern” City -- 5 New Orleans and Chopin’s Novels -- Conclusion.This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the author’s “city” stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories’ protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era.American Literature Readings in the 21st Century,2634-5803AmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern19th centuryCities and townsHistoryNorth American LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureUrban HistoryAmericaLiteratures.Literature, ModernCities and townsHistory.North American Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Urban History.809.93321732Ostman Heather1211209MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910770264303321Kate Chopin and the City3660370UNINA