Kate Chopin Reconsidered : Beyond the Bayou (Southern Literary Studies)

In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives, biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist, with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening. "" A worthwhile collection of essays offering usefully eclectic critical perspectives of Chopin and her work."" - Mississippi Quarterly