LEADER 04035nam 22005775 450 001 9910484005403321 005 20230810170641.0 010 $a9783030440220 010 $a3030440222 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-44022-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011232550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6198537 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-44022-0 035 $a(Perlego)3480865 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011232550 100 $a20200513d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKate Chopin and Catholicism /$fby Heather Ostman 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) 311 08$a9783030440213 311 08$a3030440214 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Chopin and Catholicism in America, 1850-1904 -- 3. Social and Religious Critique and Transformation through the Short Fiction -- 4. "Catholic Modernism" and the Short Stories -- 5. At Fault: Catholic Doctrine and Social Issues -- 6. The Awakening: Challenging Authority and Rewriting Women's Spirituality -- 7. Mysticism in Chopin's Fiction -- 8. Conclusion. 330 $a'Heather Ostman's Kate Chopin and Catholicism is meaty, interesting, and provocative. It may change the way we all read this marvel of a writer.' - Linda Wagner-Martin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and author of Hemingway's Wars: The Public and Private Battles (2017) 'Heather Ostman's Kate Chopin and Catholicism heralds an innovative methodology with rich possibilities for studies of Kate Chopin and American realism. As Chopin became immersed in the studies of Darwin, she drew away from practicing Catholicism. Ostman demonstrates how Chopin used Catholicism as a device to examine social issues and critique the schism between physical and corporeal pleasure. Ostman exemplifies how Chopin leveraged Catholicism to arrive at a revolutionary and unorthodox definition of mysticism and spirituality.' - Kate O'Donoghue, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk County Community College, USA This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate Chopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her novels and numerous short stories, Kate Chopin and Catholicism looks at the ways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served on multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a trope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women's struggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated authenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the distinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the articulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals Chopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the natural world. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aCatholic Church 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aCatholicism 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aCatholic Church. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aCatholicism. 676 $a813.4 700 $aOstman$b Heather$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01211209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484005403321 996 $aKate Chopin and Catholicism$92852383 997 $aUNINA