Critical essays on Kate Chopin / edited by Alice Hall Petry.

Contributor Petry, Alice Hall, 1951-

Imprint:New York : G.K. Hall, 1996.

Descriptionxiii, 257 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS: At Fault: A St. Louis novelist / St. Louis Post-Dispatch. - From 'Recent Fiction' / The Nation. - Bayou Folk: Bayou folk / The Critic. - From 'The New Books' / New Orleans Daily Picayune. - From 'Literary Notices. Recent Fiction' / Hartford Daily Courant. - From 'The New Books' / Review of Reviews. - From 'Book Reviews' / Public Opinion. - A Night in Acadia: [From 'Among the New Books'] / St. Louis Post-Dispatch. - [From 'More Novels'] / The Nation. - Mrs. Chopin's 'Night in Acadie' / J.L.G. [Jeannette L. Gilder] for The Critic. - Review of A Night in Acadie / New Orleans Daily Picayune. - The Awakening: [From 'Recent Novels'] / The Nation. -From 'Books of the Week' / Providence Sunday Journal. - From 'The Newest Books' / C[harles] L. Deyo for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. - From '100 Books for Summer' / New york Times Saturday Review of Books and Art. - From 'Book Reviews' / Public Opinion. -BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (1894): Kate Chopin / William Schuyler for The Writer. -CRITICISM BEFORE 1969: From Their Day in Court / Percival Pollard. - Stories by Kate Chopin / Joseph J. Reilly. - A forgotten novel: Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Kenneth Eble. -CRITICISM AFTER 1969: The Awakening: a political romance / Lawrence Thornton. - Kate Chopin's quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening / Bert Bender. - The teeth of desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man / Bert Bender. - The boy's quest in Kate Chopin's A Vocation and a Voice / Peggy Skaggs. - The restive brute: the symbolic presentation of repression and sublimination in Kate Chopin's Fedora / Joyce [Coyne] Dyer. - Pride and prejudice: Kate Chopin's Desiree's Baby / Robert D. Arner. - Narrative stance in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ruth Sullivan and Stewart Smith. -ORIGINAL ESSAYS: Armand Aubigny, still passing after all these years: the narrative voice and historical context of Desiree's baby / Margaret D. Bauer. - Acting like fools: the ill-fated romances of 'At the 'Cadian Ball' and 'The Storm' / Lawrence I. Berkove. - Kate Chopin's fascination with young men / Linda Wagner-Martin. - The House of Sylvie in Kate Chopin's Athénaïse / Heather Kirk Thomas. - Her own story: the woman of letters in Kate Chopin's short fiction / Nancy A. Walker. - Picture perfect: painting in The Awakening / Kathryn lee Seidel. - Land's end: The Awakening and 19th-century literary tradition / Priscilla Leder.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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