03117nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-44300-8 DE-He213 20251030110854.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231215s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031443008 978-3-031-44300-8 10.1007/978-3-031-44300-8 doi PN843-846 DS bicssc 1KB bicssc LIT004020 bisacsh DS 1KB thema Ostman, Heather. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 68291 Kate Chopin and the City [electronic resource] : The New Orleans Stories / by Heather Ostman. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 173 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803 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. 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. America Literatures. 66799 Literature, Modern 19th century. Cities and towns History. 68292 North American Literature. 66800 Nineteenth-Century Literature. Urban History. 68293 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031442995 Printed edition: 9783031443015 Printed edition: 9783031443022 American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803 66801 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44300-8 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 56831 56831