Overview
- Explores the representation of New Orleans in Kate Chopin’s short stories and novels
- Argues that Chopin’s depictions of New Orleans offer new insights into the advent of modernity
- Reveals the historical, social and aesthetic contributions of the city and its practices of inequity and cruelty
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Book Title: Kate Chopin and the City
Book Subtitle: The New Orleans Stories
Authors: Heather Ostman
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44300-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44299-5Published: 16 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44302-2Due: 16 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44300-8Published: 15 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 173
Topics: North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Urban History