LEADER 02995nam 22005775 450 001 9910770264303321 005 20250807135603.0 010 $a9783031443008$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031442995 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-44300-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31021829 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31021829 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-44300-8 035 $a(CKB)29403451100041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929403451100041 100 $a20231215d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKate Chopin and the City $eThe New Orleans Stories /$fby Heather Ostman 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (183 pages) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Ostman, Heather Kate Chopin and the City Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031442995 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin?s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the author?s ?city? stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories? protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era. 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aCities and towns$xHistory 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aUrban History 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aCities and towns$xHistory. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aUrban History. 676 $a809.93321732 700 $aOstman$b Heather$01211209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910770264303321 996 $aKate Chopin and the City$93660370 997 $aUNINA