Kate Chopin and the City : The New Orleans Stories / / by Heather Ostman

• Autore: Ostman Heather
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2024.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93321732
• Soggetto topico: America - Literatures; Literature, Modern - 19th century; Cities and towns - History; North American Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Urban History
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Kate Chopin and the City
• ISBN: 9783031443008; 9783031442995
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910770264303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, . 2634-5803